The Delhi Police has registered an FIR in connection with the four missing documents considered crucial in the Ishrat Jahan encounter killing probe.
The FIR against unknown persons was registered two days ago at Parliament Street police station after the Union Ministry of Home Affairs approached the Delhi Police.
The Home Ministry named the missing documents, including a copy of an affidavit vetted by the then Attorney General late G.E Vahanvati and submitted in the Gujarat High Court in 2009 and the draft of the second affidavit vetted by the AG on which changes were made.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh had disclosed in Parliament on March 10 that certain pages from Ishrat files were missing. A one-man committee was set up to trace the missing documents is learnt to have made no recommendations for punitive action against anyone.
Ishrat, Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjadali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in the encounter with Gujarat Police on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004.
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