{"id":311829,"date":"2019-05-02T08:12:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T08:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311829"},"modified":"2019-05-02T08:12:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T08:12:15","slug":"cbi-court-drops-case-against-former-cops-dg-vanzara-nk-amin-in-ishrat-jahan-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cbi-court-drops-case-against-former-cops-dg-vanzara-nk-amin-in-ishrat-jahan-case\/","title":{"rendered":"CBI court drops case against former cops DG Vanzara, NK Amin in Ishrat Jahan case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-311830 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DGvanzara-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/DGvanzara-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/DGvanzara-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/DGvanzara-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/DGvanzara-485x360.jpg 485w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/DGvanzara-565x420.jpg 565w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/DGvanzara.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A special CBI court on Thursday discharged former police officers DG Vanzara and NK Amin in connection with the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The former police officers had been charged with conspiracy, illegal confinement and murder in the Ishrat Jahan case by the CBI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vanzara and Amin had filed petitions in the court after the Gujarat government declined sanctions to the CBI to prosecute them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">19-year-old Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed in an alleged fake encounter in June 2004 near Ahmedabad by Gujarat police officers who said they were terrorists planning to kill Narendra Modi, who was then Chief Minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special CBI court on Thursday discharged former police officers DG Vanzara and NK Amin in connection with the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. The former police officers had been charged with conspiracy, illegal confinement and murder in the Ishrat Jahan case by the CBI. Vanzara and Amin had filed petitions in the court after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[84,3756,8727,11307],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311831,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311829\/revisions\/311831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}