Government sets up probe panel on Ishrat Jahan’s missing files

NEW DELHI: A one-man inquiry committee of Additional Secretary BK Prasad will probe the issue of missing files related to the alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan, government has said. Prasad, Additional Secretary in the Home Ministry, will inquire into the circumstances in which the files related to the case went missing.

The panel will find out the person responsible for keeping the files and related issues, a Home Ministry official said. The papers which went missing from the Home Ministry include the copy of an affidavit vetted by the Attorney General and submitted in the Gujarat High Court in 2009 and the draft of the second affidavit vetted by the AG on which changes were made. Two letters written by the then Home Secretary G K Pillai to the then Attorney General late G E Vahanvati and the copy of the draft affidavit have so far been untraceable.