Author: Indo-Asian News Service
Publication: The Hindustan Times
Date: June 22, 2004
URL: http://hindustantimes.com/news/181_843649,0008.htm
Gujarat Police on Tuesday claimed
to have unearthed "substantial evidence" to prove the links of a college
girl killed last week in Ahmedabad to the Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba
(LeT) terror group.
The police report on the investigations
following the gun battle that killed 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan and three
men, made available to media at the National Executive meeting of the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) in Mumbai, said she had travelled to some parts of the
country with Javed, who too was killed in the shootout.
The report, quoting intelligence
sources, claimed, Javed and Ishrat had visited Lucknow and Faizabad.
"The duo stayed at Hotel Shivganga
in Ahmedabad claiming to be husband and wife," it said.
The report will be forwarded to
the central Government.
"Javed and Ishrat were a part of
LeT and were working under the Dubai-based Lashkar chief Mujmil," the report
claimed.
It said: "Six political leaders
have been named in their hit list and each had been given a code name."
These leaders were former deputy
prime minister LK Advani, codenamed Lala, Gujarat Chief Minster Narendra
Modi (Mubarak), Vishwa Hindu Parishad secretary Praveen Togadia (Tinkoo),
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray (Kutta), BJP leader Vinay Katiyar (Kanta)
and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minster Uma Bharti (Behenji).
"The risk was highest for Modi,"
the report claimed.
