New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered an FIR in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case with the CBI's Mumbai Special Crime Unit on Saturday.
Three days ago, the CBI had received the official complaint from the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case.
Those accused are in the report are 20 Gujarat police officers ranging from constables to then commissioner of Ahmedabad city.
The CBI has registered the case under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 302 (Punishment for murder).
The Gujarat High Court had on December 1 directed the CBI to take over further probe in the case in which 19-year-old Ishrat, Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in Ahmedabad in 2004.
The directives came as the SIT constituted by the High Court had concluded last month that the encounter was staged by police.
A judicial inquiry report by metropolitan magistrate SP Tamang report had alleged that 2o police officers, including then crime branch chief JCP PP Pande, suspended DIG DG Vanzara, the then ACP GL Singhal and ACP NK Amin were involved in the conspiracy regarding the encounter.
Vanzara and Amin are also accused in the fake encounter killing of alleged gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh and in the murder of his wife Kausar Bi and are at present in jail.
The High Court had ordered the CBI to also probe the claims made by the state police after the encounter that Ishrat and the other three persons were LeT terrorists on a mission to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
(With additional information from PTI)
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