A special court on Thursday discharged former police officers D. G. Vanzara and N.K. Amin in the Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case. Vanzara and Amin had filed discharge applications in the special court handling CBI cases after the Gujarat government refused to grant sanctions to the CBI to prosecute the two former police officers. Special court judge J.K. Pandya said that since the government has not sanctioned their prosecution, their discharge pleas are allowed and proceedings against them will be dropped in the case. Ishrat, a 19-year-old woman from Mumbra near Mumbai, Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjadali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed by Gujarat police in an alleged fake encounter on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004.

Source: The Telegraph May 02, 2019 07:07 UTC