The CBI today gave a clean chit to former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah in the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and three others in 2004.

The agency said there is no sufficient evidence against Amit Shah. CBI Inspector Vishwas Kumar Meena said this in an affidavit filed before the special CBI court in Ahmedabad.

CBI has also given clean chit to K R Kaushik, the then Ahmedabad city police commissioner and has made him an witness in the case.

The central agency has named IPS officer D G Vanzara, P P Pandey, G L Singhal and other police officers as accused in the fake encounter case charge sheet, saying that it was a joint operation by Gujarat Police and Intelligence Bureau.

Ishrat Jahan along with three others were killed in an encounter with Gujarat Police on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004.