Ahmedabad
A special CBI court in Ahmedabad today discharged former Gujarat in-charge Director General of Police P P Pandey in the 2004 alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others, in which he was an accused.
Special CBI court judge J K Pandya allowed Pandey’s discharge application on the ground that there was no evidence against him related to the kidnapping and murder of Ishrat Jahan and three others. The CBI had accused Pandey, who then headed the Ahmedabad crime branch as being involved in the alleged fake encounter.
The court today said that no witnesses accused Pandey of the murder and kidnapping of the victims.