Vanzara said no need to examine weapons: Parikshita Rathod

Senior police officer Parikshita Rathod who was the first officer to investigate the "encounter" case of Ishrat Jahan and three others, told the CBI that suspended IPS officer D G Vanzara had told her that there was no need for ballistic examination of their weapons.
"D G Vanzara had directed me that there was no need to collect documents like logbooks, because police officers concerned are witnesses and they have stipulated what they have done and so there is no need for it," Rathod told CBI in her testimony.
"Similarly, he (Vanzara) had said that the police firing had been admitted and so there was no need for ballistic examination of their weapons," she added.

"I had also orally asked investigating officers of crimes of previous encounters, who told me that weapons fired by police officers in those cases were also not sent for ballistic examination during investigation. Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) had also not suggested during their visit to the scene of the crime that police officers' weapons should also be sent to the FSL for examination," she said.
Rathod's testimony is a part of the chargesheet filed by the central investigation agency in a special CBI court here during the first week of July, in connection with the Ishrat Jahan "encounter" case which the CBI has termed as "fake".

Regarding why she did not obtain Call Data Records (CDRs) of police officers involved in the incident, she said "I state that the work regarding CDRs was being done under the guidance of Vanzara and G L Singhal".
"Leads available from CDRs were given to me by senior officers and I called for CDRs of numbers given to me by Singhal. I had not made a personal comparative study of either requirements for or the inferences drawn from the CDRs," she said.