Ishrat case: Former IPS officer PP Pandey's plea challenging CBI probe quashed

July 12, 2013 16:43

Just in: The Supreme Court has dismissed senior IPS officer P P Pandey's plea challenging CBI probe in Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case.

Pandey had failed to get relief from the High Court in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case and approached the Supreme Court thereafter for quashing the FIR against him.

Pandey was chargesheeted by the CBI accusing him of being part of the conspiracy to eliminate Ishrat Jahan and three others.

Pandey was Joint Commissioner of Police when on June 15, 2004, Ishrat Jahan, Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjadali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in an encounter with the Gujarat police on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.

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