Home Ministry re-examining Ishrat case files: NDTV

March 01, 2016 09:02

NDTV reports: College student Ishrat Jehan's encounter killing in 2004 is being reexamined after a fresh political controversy over comments by GK Pillai, who was home secretary when the Congress-led UPA was in power.

Sources say the home ministry has asked for "all files" related to the killing of 19-year-old Ishrat and three others by Gujarat police officers who claimed they were part of a plan to assassinate Narendra Modi, the chief minister of the state at the time.

GK Pillai last week reportedly said that the Congress government's affidavit to the Gujarat High Court in 2009, which referred to Ishrat's alleged links with terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, was "changed at the political level."

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