The Special Investigating Team (SIT) has told the Gujarat High Court that the encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others was fake. After the SIT filed its report, the High Court ordered that a new FIR has to be filed against those involved in the fake encounter.

The SIT said that Ishrat along with along with Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed prior to the date of encounter on June 15, 2004 .

The arguments in the case will continue over the issue of who will file an FIR and investigate the case.

A division bench of justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari on October 7, had directed the SIT to submit the final report that would conclude if the encounter of the four persons, claimed by Gujarat Police to be terrorists, was genuine or fake.

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

The Crime Branch had then claimed the four were members of terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba and were on a mission to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

The probe in the case was supervised directly by the High Court which constituted the SIT in 2010 to investigate the genuineness of the encounter after petitions were filed by Ishrat’s mother Shamima Kausar and Gopinath Pillai raising questions about the police version of the incident.