Youth Out To 'kill Modi' Died In Fake Encounter: Report

Ex-judge Bedi rejects police account

- Krishnadas Rajagopal

In 2002, a young man, identified by his aged father as just a rickshaw puller, was shot dead in cold blood by a Gujarat police team.

The police version was that he had been sent by the Pakistan-based terror organisation, Jaish-e-Moham-mad (JeM), to assassinate the then Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, shortly after the Akshardham temple attack.

Now, 16 years after Sameer Khan was shot dead, a report submitted by a former Supreme Court judge, H.S. Bedi, concludes that he was killed in a fake encounter. However, there is no adverse finding against Mr. Modi, public servants or senior police officers.

Sameer Khan's case is the last of the 17 suspected fake police encounters, which is part of Justice Bedi's 229-page report submitted in the Supreme Court in late February 2018.

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