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Ensure Justice for Ishrat Jehan !

Get To The Bottom Of The Communal Conspiracy Of

Staged Fake Encounters and Communal Witch-Hunt!

Nail the IB and Political Masterminds!The courageous struggle of Ishrat jehans mother and family up against the formidable state

machinery of the Gujarat Government and the central intelligence agency IB and the Home

Ministry has finally won a historic vindication.

Nearly a decade ago, the Gujarat police displayed the bodies of Ishrat Jahan and 3 others,claiming they were terrorists killed in an encounter, and that they had been aiming to kill

Narendra Modi.

Subsequently, in 2009, the Ahmedabad Metropolitan Magistrate SP Tamang termed the

encounter as fake. In 2011, the Court-appointed SIT also concluded that the encounter

had been staged. The Tamang report, the SIT report and the findings of the CBI enquiry

ordered by the Court, have all confirmed what Ishrats mother and family maintained all

along: that Ishrat was killed in cold blood.

Testimonies of Gujarat cops to the CBI, including a sting operation by one of the cops, revealthe involvement of Gujarats senior-most police officials, as well as senior officers of the

Intelligence Bureau (IB), those known to be very close to the states Home Minister Amit Shah

and the Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

It is clear that this particular fake encounter was not just a case of some trigger-happy

cops. There are all indications that there is an elaborate political plot behind the killings.

The fact is that a series of encounters in Gujarat of Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram Prajapati,

of Sadiq Jamal now established as fake by investigating agencies, all played out to a certain

political script. They were all aimed at promoting the myth of Modi as the target of terrorist

attacks by Muslims. The question of who ordered all these killings that benefited Modi

politically, needs an answer.

Because very powerful people and institutions are implicated in the killings of Ishrat and 3

others, there is also a desperate attempt to cover up the truth.

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The IB has tried to claim that they have tapes of phone conversations between LeT terrorists

which prove that Ishrat was a terrorist; they also claim that David Headley confirmed that

Ishrat was an LeT operative. None of these claims are backed up by any facts. The so-called

tapes of LeT phone calls have no mention of Ishrat, plus the IB cant answer why these tapes,

if genuine, were not handed over to the Tamang enquiry or the SIT during their investigations.

The NIA has confirmed that Headley did not even mention Ishrat during their interrogation of

him.Failing to establish a definite terror link, the BJP is now falling back on sexist slandering of

Ishrats character. BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi has been saying that Ishrat, a young

woman, travelled alone with men, and this in itself is suspivious. Plus, she has said that since

Ishrat was a young woman from a poor family, she was an ideal candidate to be a terrorist!

The BJP has been accusing the CBI of acting as a tool for the Congress-UPA Government to

target Narendra Modi. But the truth is that the Congress-UPA Government itself seems

interested in a cover-up. The Home Ministry has made it clear that they are seeking to

protect the IB officers implicated in the case, by claiming that the CBI will need sanction

from the Ministry in order to prosecute the IB. It seems as though there is an undeclared

AFSPA-type law to protect the IB a shady institution that acts without any accountability!

And indeed, the CBIs chargesheet has not named the accused IB officer Rajendra Kumar.

We need to struggle to ensure that the CBI does not backtrack, and in fact will include Rajendra

Kumar and other IB officers in the chargesheet, and will follow up the investigation to ensure

that the political masterminds of the fake encounter are identified and punished.

The political slanging match between BJP and Congress cannot hide the fact that the

Congress simply has not walked its secular talk be it in the Ishrat Jahan case where the

Home Ministry has continuously helped to cover up the fake encounter, or in other casesof communal violence and fake encounters, where Congress Governments have never taken

decisive action to punish the perpetrators. Congress governments have also been involved

in fake encounters and false framing of innocent Muslims in terror cases: witness Batla

House, Malegaon, Mecca Masjid cases. And Congress governments took no action against

Advani and other BJP leaders in the Babri Masjid demolition case even after the Liberhans

commission, or against Bal Thackeray in the Bombay riots case after the Srikrishna

Commission.

Ishrats family is fighting for justice. But this issue is not a matter that concerns Ishrats family

alone. It concerns each and every democratic citizen. We have to ask ourselves: can we allow

the cold-blooded killers who hatched a conspiracy to murder a young girl and falsely brand

her as a terrorist to go unpunished?