June 19, 2016 2:11 PM

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Ishrat Jahan missing papers panel set up not to implicate anyone: Rajnath Singh

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said, the purpose of setting up an inquiry panel to find the missing files related to Ishrat Jahan case was not to implicate anyone but to recover the documents.<br/><br/>Mr. Singh was speaking to reporters today after reaching Gandhingar on his two days Gujarat visit.<br/><br/>The Minister, however, refused to comment on the news report that the inquiry officer, Additional Secretary B.K. Prasad tutored one of the key witnesses before taking his statement on the missing files.<br/><br/>Mr. Singh said, he was yet to go through the report submitted by the panel and will take a view only after talking to all concerned.<br/><br/>In its report, the inquiry panel has said that only one missing document of the five related to the Ishrat Jahan case has been found.<br/><br/>The documents which continue to be missing were from the period when Mr. P. Chidambaram was the Union Home Minister.<br/><br/>The inquiry panel, however, made no reference to Mr Chidambaram or anyone in the then UPA government.<br/><br/>Based on the statements of 11 serving and retired officers, including the then Home Secretary G.K. Pillai, the report said the documents went missing between September 18 and 28, 2009.<br/><br/>Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed in an alleged encounter with Gujarat Police on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on 15th June 2004.<br/><br/>Gujarat Police had claimed that those killed were LeT terrorists and planned to assassinate the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

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