<p><br /><br />Metropolitan Magistrate S P Tamang's probe report submitted in the metropolitan court here today said the four persons who were also suspected to be having links with Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) were killed in cold blood by the police.<br />Magistrate Tamang in his report has claimed that the four were not linked to LeT. </p>.<p>Mumbai-based Ishrat(19) was killed in an encounter along with three other persons-- Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai, Amjad Ali alias Rajkumar Akbar Ali Rana and Jisan Johar Abdul Gani-- by Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) officials near Ahmedabad on June 15 2004.<br /><br />The then head of DCB D G Vanzara who is a prime accused in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case is behind bars at present had claimed that all the four had links to LeT and they were on a mission to kill Modi.<br /><br />Last month the Gujarat High Court had formed a three-member committee headed by an officer of the rank of Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) to further investigate the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. This was done following a petition by Ishrat's mother Shamina, who alleged her daughter was killed in a fake encounter by Gujarat police.<br /><br />After the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, this was the second case where an encounter involving Gujarat police during the Narendra Modi rule is being probed again.</p>
<p><br /><br />Metropolitan Magistrate S P Tamang's probe report submitted in the metropolitan court here today said the four persons who were also suspected to be having links with Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) were killed in cold blood by the police.<br />Magistrate Tamang in his report has claimed that the four were not linked to LeT. </p>.<p>Mumbai-based Ishrat(19) was killed in an encounter along with three other persons-- Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai, Amjad Ali alias Rajkumar Akbar Ali Rana and Jisan Johar Abdul Gani-- by Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) officials near Ahmedabad on June 15 2004.<br /><br />The then head of DCB D G Vanzara who is a prime accused in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case is behind bars at present had claimed that all the four had links to LeT and they were on a mission to kill Modi.<br /><br />Last month the Gujarat High Court had formed a three-member committee headed by an officer of the rank of Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) to further investigate the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. This was done following a petition by Ishrat's mother Shamina, who alleged her daughter was killed in a fake encounter by Gujarat police.<br /><br />After the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, this was the second case where an encounter involving Gujarat police during the Narendra Modi rule is being probed again.</p>