MHA registers FIR into Ishrat Jahan missing files case
With this FIR, a formal investigation has been launched into the case.
The Delhi Police will now probe that how and under what circumstances crucial files went missing.
Additional Secretary from the Home Ministry, BK Prasad, submitted his inquiry report on the missing files earlier.
According to reports, Prasad had said that four of the five missing documents continue to be untraceable.
Quoting ministry sources, NDTV had reported that Prasad's inquiry establishes that documents on the 2004 killing of 19-year-old college student Ishrat Jahan and three others by the Gujarat police had indeed gone missing when Chidambaram was home minister.
The BJP had alleged that the missing files were part of the Congress-led government's ploy to amend its own documents and replace it with a new one that would not contain any reference to Ishrat Jahan's supposed link with the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist outfit.
The Congress had claimed that Ishrat Jahan was an innocent student who had been shot on the orders of the Gujarat government, media reported. P Chidambaram was the Home Minister then.
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