2004 ஜீன் மாதம் ஒரு இளம் பெண்ணும் மற்றும் மூன்று முஸ்லிம் இளைஞர்களும் 'நரேந்திர மோடியை கொல்ல மும்பையிலிருந்து வந்தார்கள்' என்ற பொய்க் காரணம் கற்ப்பித்து கொல்லப்பட்டனர். ஆனால் அவர்களை போலீஸே மும்பையில் கைது செய்து குஜராத்துக்கு அழைத்து வந்து போலி என்கவுண்டரில் சுட்டுத் தள்ளியுள்ளதாக விசாரணை முடிவில் தெரிய வந்துள்ளது. நீதிபதி எஸ்.பி.தாமங்க் தனது அறிக்கையில் 'குற்றமற்ற இவர்களை தங்களின் பதவி உயர்வுக்காக போலீஸார் அநியாயமாக கொன்றுள்ளனர். பாகிஸ்தானிய அமைப்புகளுக்கும் இவர்களுக்கும் எந்த சம்பந்தமும் இல்லை' என்று கூறியுள்ளார்.
எர்ஷத் ஜஹான் மற்றும் மூன்று அப்பாவி முஸ்லிம்களின் உயிரை குடித்த அதிகாரி டி.வங்சாரா தற்போது விசாரணைக்கு உட்படுத்தப்படுகிறார். விசாரணை முடிவில் இதில் நரேந்திர மோடியின் பங்கு எந்த அளவு என்பதும் தெரிய வரும். தான் முதல்வராக நீடிப்பதற்க்காக தன் மக்களையே இந்த அளவு ஒரு அரக்கன் கொன்று குவிப்பதை பார்த்து நடுநிலையாளர்கள் மோடியின் முகத்தில் காரி உமிழ்கின்றனர். இதில் பிரதமராவதற்கான கனவு வேறு.
அமெரிக்கா இவருக்கு விஷா மறுத்ததிலும், நம் நாட்டு நீதிமன்றமே இவரை நீரோ மன்னனுக்கு ஒப்பிட்டு கூறியதிலும், டெஹல்காவின் புலனாய்வு வெளியானதிலும் வெட்கமடைந்து தனது பதவியை ராஜினாமா செய்திருக்க வேண்டும். ஆனால் அதை எல்லாம் உதிர்த்தவரல்லவா இவர். இவர் ஆட்சி போன பிறகு இவரது நிலையை நினைத்து பரிதாபப்பட்டேன். பார்ப்போம் இன்னும் எத்தனை காலம் இவரின் ஆட்டம் என்று.
Claiming that Ishrat and the three others were killed by the police officers for their personal interest — to get promotions and appreciation from the Chief Minister — Mr. Tamang appended a list of top police officers, running to about two pages, whom he held responsible for the fake encounter. Besides Mr. Vanzara and his then deputy in the Crime Branch police, N. K. Amin, who along with Mr. Vanzara was arrested in the Sohrabuddin case, the list includes the then Ahmedabad Police Commissioner, K.R. Kaushik, the then chief of the Crime Branch, P.P. Pandey, and another alleged encounter specialist Tarun Barot.
Mr. Tamang’s report said the Crime Branch police “kidnapped” Ishrat and the others from Mumbai on June 12 and brought them to Ahmedabad. The four were killed on the night of June 14 in police custody, but the police claimed that an “encounter” took place the next morning on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. That rigor mortis set in between 11 p.m. and midnight the previous night clearly pointed to the fact that the police pumped bullets into Ishrat’s lifeless body to substantiate the encounter theory.
The report said explosives, rifles and other weapons allegedly found in the car, in which the four victims were “travelling to Ahmedabad from Mumbai,” and some of the weapons found on their person were all “planted” by the police.
Mr. Tamang said there was no evidence to link Ishrat Jahan and another victim, Javed Sheikh, with the Pakistan-based terror group, Lashkar-e-Taiba. Neither was there anything to establish that they had “come” to Gujarat to kill Mr. Modi.
-The Hindu
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Ishrat Jehan who was killed in an encounter
Mumbai: Ishrat Jehan, who was killed in a “fake encounter” of 2004 in Gujarat, had four sisters and two brothers. “The careers of my children are finished. They all wanted to study. They have no one to support their education. Today, my children can move ahead,” said Shamima, mother of Ishrat Jehan, in a tearful address to the media. Ms. Shamima remembered all that the family lost in its fight for justice.
Highlighting the support from non-Muslims, Abdul Rauf Lala, a social activist closely associated with the case, said there could not be a bigger victory for secularism. “This case should not be seen from a religious perspective but from a human perspective. It was a mother’s fight for justice.”
At a time when none wanted to be associated with them, some leaders, namely Jitendra Avhad of the Nationalist Congress Party, and advocates Vrinda Grover, Mukul Sinha and Shilpa Shah took up their cause. The family hailed them and the media as well for keeping up the pressure.
For five years, the family endured disgrace, despair and legal demands. “We have spent five years crying. Only I know the agony we have been through,” said Ms. Shamima.
“These five years were the worst period of our lives. It was difficult for us to prove. We were disheartened,” said Ishrat’s younger sister Musarrat.
The probe report of the magisterial inquiry had brought much relief. Too overwhelmed for words, Ms. Musarrat read from a piece of paper: “We had full faith we would win this fight. This was a conspiracy. We have been saying from day one that our sister was innocent. She loved this country as much as you do. No power can give her back to us. But we are happy that we got justice. Those who doubted us, saw us with suspicion, have lowered their heads.”
Not ruling out the connivance of Maharashtra police force in the “fake encounter,” Mr. Lala said they had received some reports on the involvement of an “encounter specialist.” Ishrat went out of the house on June 11, 2004, and that was the last anyone saw of her. On June 16, the family learnt of her death.
“When we went to collect her body, [the then Gujarat police DCP] D.G. Vanzara and [ACP Narendra] Amin behaved deplorably and forced Ishrat’s mother to confess falsely. We were detained for eight hours,” said Mr. Lala. Tellingly, the court summons for August 21 arrived by post this Monday, he said.
Mr. Lala said the post-mortem report indicated the day of Ishrat’s death as June 14, while the police had stated the encounter date as June 16.
Now all that the family wishes for is severe punishment for those who carried out the heinous act. “They should be hanged so that no one’s sister dies in such a brutal manner,” said Ms. Musarrat. Asked if they wanted action against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, she said they were not specifically asking for Mr. Modi to be indicted, but for those behind the killing.
Ishrat was just 19 when she was “kidnapped,” shot “in cold blood” and termed a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative. She was a second year B.Sc. student aspiring to become a teacher. She was also teaching at a well-known coaching centre. A day before she was “kidnapped” she had applied for an educational scholarship.
“She was very intelligent and a good teacher. All of us had our dreams back then, but we don’t anymore. Now hope has been lit, but time cannot come back. The time to study and build a career has gone,” rued Ms. Musarrat, who works as a receptionist.
Sheikh Anwar, Ishrat’s younger brother who is a computer engineer, said, “When we heard the news of her death, we did not believe it. My sister was very naïve. She was very nice. I was too small, but I knew my sister could never have done this. She was scared of even a cockroach,” he recalled.
-The Hindu
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