HC RAP GOVT FOR ITS APPROACH IN ISHRAT CASE

HC RAP GOVT FOR ITS APPROACH IN ISHRAT CASE

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August 13, 2022

Gujarat High Court has come down heavily on the state government for the way it has objected to metropolitan magistrate SP Tamang’s report in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. The state government got a rap for siding with police officers and for trying to create obstacles in possibility of finding out truth. The petitioners’ counsel had expressed surprise over the state government’s reaction to the Tamang report and objected to any investigation by Gujarat police. The state government continued to object to CBI probe and Tamang report also by siding with one of the involved officers GL Singhal. The state government’s support to ATS SP Singhal and its attempt at character assassination of Ishrat and Javed Shaikh made the high court pull up the government for its partisan approach. “It would hardly be fair on the part of the state to side with any persons, who are referred to or found to have been involved in the incident,” the court observed against the government.