Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday asked the state government to furnish details of the contractual appointment of two retired police officers who are accused in Ishrat Jahan and other alleged fake encounter cases after a PIL challenged their appointment.
A division bench of Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice V M Pancholi asked government pleader Manisha Luvkumar to seek instructions from the government over the appointments of N K Amin and Tarun Barot, both accused in encounter cases, for a tenure of one year on contractual basis after their retirement.
The court, while hearing the PIL filed by retired IPS officer Rahul Sharma, rejected the petitioner’s request to grant interim stay against their appointments, and kept the matter for further hearing on November 16.
Sharma said in his petition that the two officers have “criminal antecedents and their appointment to senior positions in the police force is not conducive to general public interest.–PTI
