Ishrat Jahan and three others were shot dead by the Gujarat police on June 15, 2004. The Gujarat police prided to have gunned them down in an ‘encounter’ to foil an assassination bid on Chief Minister Narendra Modi. A suo motu notice of the incident was taken by the NHRC within three days and directed the government of Gujarat to comply with the NHRC 2003 Guidelines on Encounter Deaths.
According to Nitya Ramakrishnan, supreme court advocate writing in the Hindu (see The Hindu dated Septembet 12, 2009) "Encounter killings are surely homicide. Whether culpable or justified as self-defence is a matter for the judge". If encounter killings are homicide, then what would be a fake encounter killings? To me it is nothing else than a cold blooded murder.
Fake encounter is surely an attempt to murder cold bloodily. To reduce it anything less than cold blooded murder is to do injustice to the victims of such heinous crimes. Ishrat Jahan's case should set a deterrent to the perpetrators of such 'fake encounter'. If these accused police officers of Gujarat Police who were behind this 'fake encounter' are seen in the same manner as cold blooded criminals, only then will the society have trust in the justice system.
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