Advocate for one of the victims of Ishrat Jahan encounter case has claimed a retired Gujarat police officer had heard his suspended senior D G Vanzara, main accused in the case, telling another officer that he had the clearance of Chief Minister Narendra Modi for the encounter.
Mukul Sinha, lawyer for encounter victim Javed Sheikh, has posted on his facebook the purported statement of retired DySP D H Goswami, which he claims is a part of charge sheet filed by CBI in Ishrat case, saying Vanzara, now in custody, had told another officer G L Singhal that they have got approval from the Chief Minister for the encounter.
Sheikh was killed in the encounter along with 19-year-old college student Ishrat and two others on June 15, 2004, for which CBI filed a charge sheet in a court here on Wednesday last saying the encounter was fake and jointly carried out by city crime branch along with IB.
Sinha has said on his facebook page that Annexure 87 of the charge sheet filed by CBI contains the statement of Goswami recorded under section 164 of the CrPC before the Additional Chief Magistrate, Esplanade Court Mumbai.
"A part of it reads as under: "12/6/04, (2 days before encounter) at 7:30-8:30 pm went with G L Singhal to Crime Branch office in Shahbaug, Ahmedabad.
