Murder case filed against 14 policemen involved in alleged fake encounter

September 30th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Home Ministry has filed a revised affidavit in the Ahmedabad court against the Narendra Modi led-Government's argument over the fake encounter of 19-year-old Gujarat college girl Ishrat Jahan and three others. The three-page affidavit was prepared by the Home Ministry and settled by the Attorney General GE Vahanvati.

September 29th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The blame game between the Centre and the Gujarat Government over the fake encounter of a 19-year-old Gujarat college girl Ishrat Jahan and three others shows no sign of ending, as the former has now reportedly said that it will file a affidavit against the Narendra Modi led-Government's argument. The Gujarat Government claims that its police officials acted on inputs provided by the Union Home Ministry, which dubbed the four as Lashkar operatives and alleged that the Centre had given credibility to the reports that Ishrat Jahan was on a mission to target Gujarat Chief Minister Modi.

September 10th, 2009 IMPHAL - The Okaram Ibobi Singh led Manipur Government is facing caught a controversy over the killing of six suspected militants by security forces. Six persons were killed in an encounter with security forces on Tuesday near Awang Khunou village in Imphal West district.

September 8th, 2009 Ahmedabad, Sept 8 (IBNS) A judicial probe said the 2004 killing of young college girl Ishrat Jahan and three others suspected to be on a mission to ‘kill’ Chief Minister Narendra Modi was a case of ‘fake encounter’ by the police. Ishrat Jahan, a 19-year old student of Khalsa College, Mumbai, and three others - Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai, Amjad Ali alias Rajkumar Akbar Ali Rana and Jisan Johar Abdul Gani - who the police claimed were Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives, were killed by Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) officials near Ahmedabad on June 15 2004, a day before they were officially shown as having died in a police encounter.

August 18th, 2009 IMPHAL - Normal life was badly affected in different parts of Manipur on the first day of the three-day general strike called by the Apunba Lup, an umbrella organisation of several social organisations, protesting against the killing of youth allegedly by police commmandos in an encounter last month. Markets, business centers and entertainment houses remained closed, while attendance in government offices was negligible and vehicles largely remained off the road during the first day of general strike.

August 11th, 2009 IMPHAL - Curfew was re-imposed in Imphal on Tuesday following protests over the killing of a youth in a fake encounter. According to official sources, a partial relaxation in an indefinite curfew was withdrawn after agitators tried to defy restrictions.

August 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The National Human Rights Commission has recommended that the Uttar Pradesh Government pay three lakh rupees monetary relief each to the next of kin of Ram Shankar and Prabhat Singh, who were both killed in a fake police encounter on September 2, 2003. The Commission has also asked the State Government to submit compliance report with proof of payment within eight weeks.

August 3rd, 2009 IMPHAL - Normal life in Manipur was disrupted on Monday by a 48-hour general strike called by a social organisation in protest against the killing of a youth in an alleged fake encounter. An organization Apunb Lup (A L) called for the general strike after a section of the media called the encounter as fake and published the pictures.

July 8th, 2009 DEHRADUN - Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, on Wednesday recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged police encounter that claimed the life of MBA student Ranbir Singh. State Chief Secretary I.

July 7th, 2009 DEHRADUN - The father of the 24-year-old MBA student Ranvir Singh, who was allegedly killed by police in a staged shootout in the Uttarakhand capital Friday, has registered a case of murder against the police. The case was lodged with the Raipur police station Tuesday after Ranvir Singh's father Ravindra Singh made a written complaint alleging "cold-blooded murder" of his son by the local policemen.

July 7th, 2009 DEHRADUN - A case has been registered against six policemen involved in the alleged fake encounter that resulted in the killing of Ranbir Singh, a 24-year-old MBA student. An FIR under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered against them.

March 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former Union Minister Maneka Gandhi on Thursday broke silence over her son's alleged hate speech, saying the Congress was taking up the case to 'conceal' its 'anti-Sikh acts'. "It has become empirical for Congress to show such tapes (of hate speeches) to conceal their anti-Sikh acts," Gandhi said.

March 5th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Three men wanted in several cases were killed by the police Thursday in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly town after a two-hour-long gun battle, a police official said. Five policemen were injured in the process, three of them critically.

February 5th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Andhra Pradesh High Court, in a landmark verdict, Friday ruled that cases should be filed against policemen involved in shootouts and their names should be made public. The five-member bench headed by Chief Justice A.R.

January 30th, 2009 GUWAHATI - The army is facing another fake shootout slur over the killing of a physically challenged Assamese teenager who they claimed was a separatist involved in the gunning down of two policemen. There has been widespread protest over the incident, including a near total 12-hour dawn-to-dusk shutdown Saturday, in Sonari area in Sivasagar district, about 390 km east of Assam's main city of Guwahati.