Ahmedabad:
The Central Bureau of Investigation or the CBI is questioning Intelligence Bureau Special Director Rajinder Kumar at a guesthouse of the Border Security Force in Gandhinagar, say sources.
He has already been questioned by the CBI earlier for his alleged role in the fake encounter case in which 19-year old Ishrat Jahan was killed along with four others on June 15, 2004 by a team of Crime Branch officials on Ahmedabad's outskirts.
The agency wanted to question Mr Kumar again as it claims to have new evidence about his alleged involvement in the conspiracy.
The CBI had issued fresh notices to the Rajinder Kumar under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure as previous examination of the officer was not satisfactory and replies
given by him, the agency said, appeared diversionary.
Sources say the officer had claimed in his defence that the intelligence input given by him was a genuine one and giving input does not mean that he directed the police to carry out the encounter. Gujarat Police had alleged Ishrat Jahan was part of a terror outfit LeT module aiming at the life of Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
CBI sources said they have enough leads which indicate Mr Kumar's alleged involvement in the conspiracy leading to the encounter, which was found to be fake by the Special Investigating Team constituted by the Gujarat High Court.
The CBI's move to question Kumar had strained its relations with the Intelligence Bureau (IB). Last week Union Home Secretary K Singh convened a meeting of CBI Director Ranjit Sinha and IB Chief Asif Ibrahim to discuss the issue in detail.