Vanzara, a former IPS officer and an accused in the Ishrat Jahan case, said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was secretly interrogated by the investigating officer. In his discharge application filed in the special CBI court in Ahmedabad, Vanzara said Modi, then the chief minister of Gujarat, was interrogated in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, but “such material was not placed on record of this case”. This proves that “the entire material on record of this case is nothing but a false story”, he said. “The fact also remains that the then CM and present Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi was also called by the IO and was interrogated. The special CBI judge J.K. Pandya issued a notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), seeking its response by 28 March to Vanzara’s plea seeking discharge.

Source: Mint March 13, 2018 16:30 UTC