Gujarat HC adjourns hearing in Sadiq Jamal fake encounter case

Gujarat High Court today adjourned on CBI's plea the hearing in the Sadiq Jamal encounter case of 2003.
Justice R M Chhaya adjourned the hearing as Intelligence Bureau sought two weeks for filing reply on CBI's plea challenging the lower court's order which directed the agency to provide copy of a confidential report to the accused police officers in the case.
A special court for CBI cases had earlier ordered CBI, the prosecuting agency, to give IB's secret report to the accused police officers in February this year.
CBI challenged the order before the High Court.
Joint Director, IB, has been made a party to CBI's petition, while accused police officers (suspended DySPs) Tarun Barot and J G Parmar are respondents.

The IB report, which dubbed Bhavnagar-based Sadiq as 'Lashkar-e-Taiyaba' (LeT) terrorist, had been prepared by Maharashtra IB officer Gururaj Savadatti in January 2003.

Sadiq was killed by Ahmedabad crime branch team in an alleged fake encounter near Galaxy Cinema on the outskirts of the city on January 13, 2003.
According to Gujarat police, Sadiq had entered the city on a mission to eliminate then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and VHP leader Pravin Togadia.
The High Court in 2011 handed over the probe to CBI on a petition filed by Sadiq's brother Shabbir Jamal. On December 21, 2012, CBI filed a charge sheet against eight accused.