Ishrat Jahan's mother alleges attempt to murder her

In what could be a shocking development in the case, two unidentified persons allegedly attempted to murder the mother of Ishrat Jahan while she was returning home to Mumbra late last night. Shamima Kauser was returning home on Wednesday night when a person who was travelling with her said that they spotted two men following their car on a motorcycle. “I saw a gun in the hand of the pillion rider,” hotelier Mohiddin Sayyad, who was with Kauser, told the Indian Express .   [caption id=“attachment_889815” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Shamima Kauser had filed the petition in the Gujarat High Court. Reuters[/caption] The report that one of the two persons on the motorcycle was caught and handed over to the police while the other managed to escape. The probe into the Ishrat Jahan killing is nearing an end with the Gujarat High Court directing the CBI to file its charge sheet in the case by 4 July. A division bench of justice Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari told CBI that there was considerable delay in the investigation and filing of the charge sheet resulting in the accused being released on bail. The CBI, acting on the instruction of the High Court, had taken over the probe of the alleged fake encounter in which 19-year-old Ishrat, Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed on the outskirts of the city on 15 June 2004 allegedly by a state Crime Branch team led by DIG D G Vanzara. The investigations have invited their fair share of controversy with the probe delving into the truth behind the Intelligence Bureau notification that the group was planning to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. While the CBI said they had no evidence to link the Gujarat Chief Minister to the incident, the Intelligence Bureau took strong exception to the probe targeting one of its officers.