Ahmedabad: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing into the Ishrat Jehan alleged fake encounter case is expected to submit its Action Taken Report in the Gujarat High Court.
The team is also probing the circumstances under which seven witnesses retracted their statements.
On October 7, the Gujarat High Court had asked the SIT to submit its final report by November 18.
A division bench of Justices Jayant Patel and Justice Abhilasha Kumari had said that substantial progress had been made in the case after SIT's new chairman R R Verma took over the investigations.
It was the second time that the court had directed the SIT to submit its final report.
Earlier, during a hearing on September 10, the SIT was asked to give its final report by October 7. However, the team had submitted an interim report saying investigation into the case was not over.
Ishrat, 19, Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were allegedly killed in a police encounter in Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004.
Advocate Mukul Sinha, representing Gopinath Pillai, father of deceased Pranesh Pillai alias Javed Shaikh, informed to the court that the SIT was taking a very long time to give a final report on the issue.
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