New Delhi, August 14 : Much has been talked about the Ishrat Jahan Encounter case! While the Congress and Nationalist Congress party is alleged for using this case as a political and communal tool, more annoying for any Indian citizen is this case made India’s apex Intel agencies to trigger guns on each other. The Central Bureau of Investigation is trying to portray the Intelligence Bureau a culprit to release alert about the encountered terrorists in June 2004. Interestingly the Intelligence Bureau has almost exposed the politically motivated game plan of the CBI. The situation becomes more complex when the CBI in its charge sheet states such facts which portray a different story than a staged one. Even after getting a slap for terming the Batala house encounter a Fake, the ruling party and its squad of spokespersons have focused their hopes on the Ishrat Jahan encounter case to de victimize the terrorists and victimize the BJP, Narendra Modi and India’s reputed and most trustworthy intelligence agencies. While the Congress, the NCP leaders are hallucinating about the encounter of terrorists which came to Gujarat with a plot to assassin Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, the CBI charge sheet actually denounces the claim of the masters of the ‘Caged Parrot’ and unknowingly portrays a factual picture of Ishrat Jahan’s suspicious activities which come out with the statements and confessions of various persons including her Mother. In its charge sheet, the CBI said that Ishrat Jahan was not a terrorist, but the three others killed along with her in a fake encounter on the outskirts of Ahmedabad nine years ago had alleged terror links, the CBI has concluded in its charge sheet filed before the court. The CBI has said the three — Pranesh Pillai alias Javed Shaikh, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar — was allegedly planning attacks in Ahmadabad. The charge sheet added that Javed was using Isharat, as a shield to escape detection. Since the case is sub-judice, it is now up to the Judiciary to decide whether the encounter was a real or a fake. But it is interesting to see the picture of Ishrat Jahan that emerges in the CBI charge sheet. Story starts from Javed meets Ishrat The story of Isharat, a middle class college girl from Mumbra, actually unfolds with the story of Javed Gulam Sheikh Alias Pranesh Pillai. Ishrat’s Mother Shamima Mohammad Shamim Raza tells that after demise of her husband, she was having lots of problems in the upbringing of her family with seven children. Ishrat was the second of 7 siblings. Her lower middle class family, hailing from Bihar, lived in the Rashid compound in the Muslim-dominated area of Mumbra in Thane district. Studying B.Sc. at Mumbai’s Khalsa College, Isharat worked at a Computer centre and used to take tuitions of the nearby children. In the situation of financial crisis, a friend of Isharat’s sister told that one Javed from Mumbra needs an assistant to look after his business. In the last week of April, Shamima and Isharat met Javed at a Hotel near Mumbra. After having seen Javed, Shamima states that she identified Javed immediately as he was seen at Mumbra in 1995. Javed too tells Shamima that he was in good relationship with Ishrat’s father. The meeting comes to an end as Javed offers a Job at Pune to Isharat on a monthly salary of Rs. 3000. Later when he opens a branch at Mumbai, she would be transferred. Shamima recounts that after this Javed called on her neighbour’s cell phone someday in May 2004. He told that Ishrat has to go out of town for some office work. But Shamima says, “She (Ishrat) stayed out of town for six days. When I enquired with Ishrat over phone as to where she was staying, she informed that she was stationed at Lucknow. I did not ask her by which vehicle she has travelled….” “However I came to know later from Ishrat after her return from Lucknow, that Javed owned an Indica car. I used to worry about Ishrat as she had gone to Lucknow and I had also talked to Javed, during which he assured me that he will take total care of her.” Shamima says, “Ishrat had gone on two occasions with Javed in May 2004. After her first return from Lucknow, Ishrat had given me Rs. 2500/- and on the second occasion she had given me Rs. 2000.” Ishrat told her mother that she was staying at residence of Javed’s relatives in Lucknow. Twist to tale: story of Javed alias Pranesh Incidentally Javed’s family background suggests that there is very little chance of having his relatives in Lucknow. The CBI Testimony of Javed’s father Gopinathan Pillai, a native of Noornad in Kerala indicates that he knew little about Javed’s whereabouts and activities. He has stated that he never enquired about Javed’s residence in Mumbai. Activities of Pranesh Pillai, who later converted to Islam and became Javed Gulam Sheikh, have always remained suspicious. Before his death, Javed had been booked for four assault cases in Mumbai and Pune. He had also been charged with involvement in a fake currency racket. He converted to Islam In the mid-1990s and changed his name to Javed Gulam Sheikh to marry his neighbor Muslim girl, Sajida. Gujarat Police recovered two passports from Javed: one obtained using his original name Pranesh and the second one in his new name. In 1999, Javed went to Dubai. In 2002, Javed send Rs. 1 Lakh to his father for his bypass surgery. After his return to India in 2003, Javed bought a flat in Pune in the name of ‘Sayeed Abdul Wahid’. Javed took a shop on rent and started a business of perfume and cloths at Pune. But he closed the shop because of losses, tells Sajida. Thereafter Javed told his family that he was working with Javabhai of Al Rehman Travels at Byculla. This tour company was in a business of supplying manpower to UAE based companies and sending people to Haj. Sajida’s statements reveal many important points such as in March 2004, Javed went to Oman for some work pertaining to Import and export of electronics good. On his return he brought a satellite phone. He was using 2-3 cell phones at that time. While returning he was having Rs. 2.50 lakhs out of which he purchased a second hand Indica car (No. MH-02-JA-4786). Sajida also mentions how stressed was Javed while returning from Kerala just before he left his family to Ahmadnagar at Sajida’s sister’s home. Sajida also identified Amajad Ali as Bunty, the third terrorist encounter. She recalled that in the month of May 2004, at the time of purchase of Indica car, Javed had brought one of his friends at his house and introduced him as his friend ‘Bunty’. Bunty stayed at Javed’s house.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:21:49 +0000
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