[Reader-list] "It was a cold blooded murder": Ishrat's mom

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Ishrat Jahan's mom seeks Chidambaram's help
TNN, Jul 6, 2010, 12.12am IST

Mumbra: The TOI report on Ishrat Jahan's Lashkar-e-Taiba links stirred
a fresh controversy on Monday, with the slain 19-year-old Mumbra
girl's mother seeking a clarification from Union home minister P
Chidambaram on the issue.

Ishrat's mother, Shamima Kausar (51), without going into the details
of the LeT charge, reiterated that her daughter was killed in cold
blood in a staged gun battle by the Gujarat Police in 2004. "The news
is an attempt to prejudice Gujarat HC, which is looking into my appeal
for a CBI probe in Ishrat's death. Already a magisterial inquiry in
Gujarat has declared the encounter as fake and proved her innocence.
I'll approach the union home minister and ask him to come clean on
this issue,'' Kausar told TOI.

Ishrat, a collegian, was shot dead along with three others in a
shootout in Ahmedabad. Gujarat police claimed that the four were LeT
operatives out to kill CM Narendra Modi. Kausar pursued the case in
Gujarat courts with support from Jitendra Awhad, NCP MLA from
Mumbra-Kausa.

"It's only an attempt to scare the mother,'' said Rauf Lala, a
Mumbra-based lawyer assisting Kausar in the case against Gujarat
government.

Kausar said it's not going to cow her down and that it'll strengthen
her resolve for getting justice for Ishrat. She said her eldest
daughter's death in such circumstances had initially led to much
suspicion and scorn from neighbours but a court order by judicial
magistrate S Tamang -- doubting the veracity of the encounter -- had
cleared those misconceptions.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Ishrat-Jahans-mom-seeks-Chidambarams-help/articleshow/6132205.cms

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Also see the following links:

Ishrat Jahan encounter was fake: Magisterial probe
8 September 2009
http://www.twocircles.net/2009sep07/ishrat_jahan_encounter_was_fake_magisterial_probe.html

Ishrat fake encounter case: IB inputs were 'manufactured' in Gujarat
TNN, Jun 22, 2010
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Ahmedabad/Ishrat-fake-encounter-%20case-IB-inputs-were-manufactured-in-Gujarat/articleshow/6076968.cms

Fake Encounter Deaths in India
http://fakencounterindia.blogspot.com/