David Coleman Headley&rsquo;s deposition has opened old wounds for Ishrat Jahan&rsquo;s family and supporters, after he told the court yesterday that the deceased 19-year-old was a suicide bomber working for LeT.
<img title="Ishrat&rsquo;s mother Shamima Kausar interacts with journalists during a press conference in Thane yesterday. Pic/PTI" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/feb/Shamima-Kausar.jpg" alt="Ishrat&rsquo;s mother Shamima Kausar interacts with journalists during a press conference in Thane yesterday. Pic/PTI" />Ishrat&rsquo;s mother Shamima Kausar interacts with journalists during a press conference in Thane yesterday. Pic/PTI
Ishrat&rsquo;s mother, Shamima Kauser told mid-day, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the same old lie again. I have said it many times that my daughter is innocent, and I say the same thing today. Three government reports from Magistrate S P Tamang, the SIT (State Investigation Team) and CID clearly proved in court that my daughter was innocent and she was killed in a fake encounter. Allah knows everything about my daughter.&rdquo;
<img title="D G Vanzara, who was DCP with Ahmedabad crime branch when the encounter took place, held a press conference yesterday to say the deposition has vindicated him. Pic/Atul Kamble" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/feb/D-G-Vanzara.jpg" alt="D G Vanzara, who was DCP with Ahmedabad crime branch when the encounter took place, held a press conference yesterday to say the deposition has vindicated him. Pic/Atul Kamble" /> D G Vanzara, who was DCP with Ahmedabad crime branch when the encounter took place, held a press conference yesterday to say the deposition has vindicated him. Pic/Atul Kamble
She added it was ridiculous if people considered Headley&rsquo;s statement reliable, since he himself is a terrorist and a liar.
NCP MLA Jitendra Awhad, who came out in support of the family early on, said, &ldquo;The question and answer between public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam and Headley speak volumes. At first, Headley had openly answered that he doesn&rsquo;t know about any suicide bomber. Then he was given three names &mdash; Noor Begum, Ishrat Jahan and Mumtaz &mdash; and asked which of them was a suicide bomber and he said Ishrat. This is contradictory, and according to the law, such multiple-choice questions are not allowed.&rdquo; Activist and president of the My Mumbra Foundation, Rauf Lala, also questioned why Headley was asked game show-style questions in which he was given no choice but to name one of the three women as a suicide bomber.
&ldquo;He didn&rsquo;t make the statement, it was taken out from him. Like in KBC, he was given options. He had never seen any evidence of Ishrat&rsquo;s involvement himself. It has already been proved that the Ishrat case was a fake encounter. Three investigation agencies said there was no terror link between Ishrat and the LeT. Headley cannot be trusted,&rdquo; said Lala.

Ishrat Jahan&rsquo;s family and supporters said the deceased 19-yr-old&rsquo;s innocence had already been established by 3 govt reports

Ishrat Jahan's family continues to maintain she is innocent

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Ishrat Jahan&rsquo;s family and supporters said the deceased 19-yr-old&rsquo;s innocence had already been established by 3 govt reports

Ishrat Jahan's family continues to maintain she is innocent

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