The Alleged Encounter
Ishrat had left her house on 12 June 2004, three days before she was killed. Ishrat made her last call to her home at Mumbra on 11 June 2004, three days before her death and spoke with her mother Shamima. According to her mother, Ishrat called her from a public phone booth outside a Nashik bus stop, and told her that "Uncle (Javed Sheikh hasn’t come yet." A few minutes later, Ishrat made a second call and told her mother in a terrified voice that Javed had come but with some "strange men".
On 15 June 2004, the Gujarat police stated that Ishrat, along with three other people, had been gunned down near Ahmedabad by a police team belonging to the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) of the Ahmedabad City Police. The four were allegedly killed after the police chased their blue Tata Indica car.
The police claimed that all four were connected with the Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba and were in Gujarat to assassinate Narendra Modi, in order to avenge the communal riots of 2002 which had led to the deaths of numerous Muslims. The police team was led by then Deputy Commissioner of Police Dhananjay G. Vanzara, who was later jailed for involvement in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter killing.
Read more about this topic: Ishrat Jahan Encounter Case
Famous quotes containing the words alleged and/or encounter:
“About the alleged condition of the property. Does it have to be intact?”
—Margaret Forster, British screenwriter, Peter Nichols, and Silvio Narizzano. Georgy (Lynn Redgrave)
“One who accumulates goodness will encounter goodness, and one who accumulates evil will encounter evil.”
—Chinese proverb.