Indian court rules 2004 Gujarat encounter against four ‘LT members’ was staged

[Naveed Yaseen]

NEW DEHI: Five years after Indian police killed three men and a woman suspected of being Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LT) activists, a court in Gujarat said the incident had been a “staged encounter” and the people killed had no connection with Pakistan. The Gujarat state police had claimed that Ishrat Jahan, 19, a college student and three of her male colleagues were Lashkar members and planned to assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, before they were killed in June 2004. In a 243-page handwritten report, Judge SP Tamang said police had abducted the four suspects in 2004 from Mumbai, moved them to Ahmedabad where they were killed in “cold blood”. The report said the policemen’s motive for staging the encounter was to get promotions. iftikhar gilani

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