"My sister is not a terrorist. The Gujarat police killed her in a fake encounter," said Mussarat Jahan, Ishrat Jahan's sister reacting to the Gujarat High Court order on Thursday, directing a probe into the alleged fake encounter in June 2004.

Senior Gujarat IPS officer D G Vanjara, is in jail for staging the fake encounter of Soharabudin Shaikh, on November 26, 2005 in Gandhinagar.
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Dead: Ishrat Jahan was killed in an alleged fake encounter in 2004

Ishrat was the sole breadwinner in her family of seven and took tuitions and did odd jobs to help out. Despite financial problems, Ishrat's family made do. Until, she was tagged a terrorist.

Everything changed and the family struggling to survive, was dragged into penury.
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Vanjara who was then the additional commissioner of police (Crime) had claimed that Ishrat along with three others were allegedly on their way to Ahmedabad to kill CM Narendra Modi, when they were shot dead in an encounter.
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Added her mother Shamima, "We are confident that justice will prevail." Sr Advocate Vrinda Grover representing the family said, "We will point out the aspects that need investigation within two weeks to the committee appointed for the probe."

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