In a setback to the Narendra Modi government, the Special Investigation Team, SIT, probing the 2004 Ishrat Jehan case has concluded that Ishrat and three others were killed in a fake encounter. The Gujarat High Court has ordered a fresh FIR against the accused police officers in the case.

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 for murder should be filed in the concerned police station against the accused police officers involved in the fake encounter.

Our Ahmedabad Correspondent reports that the court is at present considering which central agency-CBI or NIA-can probe the case, after the second FIR is filed.