Gujarat High Court today ordered a CBI inquiry into fake encounter case of Ishrat Jehan and three others. In a setback to the Narender Modi government, the special investigation team probing the 2004 Ishrat Jehan case had earlier concluded that the college girl was killed in a fake encounter, prompting the Gujarat High Court to order a fresh FIR against accused policemen in the case.

The SIT in its report said Ishrat and three others were killed prior to the encounter date of June 15, 2004.

A division bench of Justice Jayant Patel and Justice Abhilasha Kumari ordered that a separate FIR under section 302 (punishment for murder) should be filed in the concerned police station against those police officers who were involved in the shootout.

The SIT had submitted its final report in the High Court regarding their findings on the encounter on November 18.

Ishrat, a 19-year-old college girl, along with Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar was killed in a shootout by Ahmedabad Crime Branch on June 15, 2004.