Delhi HC refuses to remain dismissal of IPS officer who probed Ishrat Jahan case

The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to place a keep on a central authorities order dismissing Indian Police Service officer Satish Chandra Verma, who was a part of the investigation group within the Ishrat Jahan case, PTI reported.

Verma has challenged his dismissal order earlier than the High Court. On Monday, the court docket advised the Centre to answer to his petition inside eight weeks, however refused to place Verma’s dismissal on maintain.

The Union authorities dismissed the officer on August 30, a month forward of his scheduled retirement. A departmental inquiry had held him responsible on plenty of fees, together with “interacting with public media”.

The dismissal order implies that Verma wouldn’t be entitled to pension or different post-retirement advantages.

Earlier this month, the officer had moved the Supreme Court, difficult the dismissal order. On September 19, the court docket had stayed the order for per week, and mentioned that it was for the High Court to resolve on whether or not to proceed the keep after that interval.

Verma was a part of the Gujarat High Court-appointed Special Investigation Team that had concluded in 2011 that 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan together with Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjadali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar had been killed in a staged gunfight with safety forces on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004.

The Gujarat Police had claimed that the 4 had hyperlinks with terrorist teams and had been conspiring to kill Narendra Modi, who was Gujarat’s chief minister on the time.