New Delhi: The Supreme Court has protected senior Gujarat cadre IPS officer PP Pandey from arrest for two days (Saturday and Sunday) in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. The Supreme court on Friday directed PP Pandey to appear before the trail court on Monday.
The absconding senior Gujarat Police officer had on July 9 approached the Supreme Court for quashing the FIR against him in the Ishrat Jahan case.
Pandey was chargesheeted by the CBI accusing him of being part of the conspiracy to eliminate Ishrat Jahan and three others. The CBI failed to trace him after Pandey went on a long leave. The agency then approached the court to declare him an absconder.
Pandey was Joint Commissioner of Police when on June 15, 2004 Ishrat Jahan, Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjadali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in an encounter with the Gujarat Police on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.
A day before the encounter, Pandey, along with suspended IPS officer DG Vanzara and IB officer Rajinder Kumar allegedly planned details of how the killing will take place. As head of the Crime Branch that carried out the operation, Pandey allegedly directly supervised actions of Vanzara and others, and even directed how the first FIR must be filed before the encounter.
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