Sadiq Jamal Encounter: Last encounter cop in jail walks free after CBI court grants bail

Sadiq, 28, was killed on the night of January 12-13, 2003, in Naroda area in Ahmedabad, after an intelligence input forwarded by the Gujarat Police linked him to Salim Chiplun, an aide of gangsters Anees Ibrahim (Dawood’s brother) and Chhota Shakeel.

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Days before the encounter, he was apprehended by officers of the Maharashtra unit of the IB (SIB, Mumbai) and the Crime Intelligence Unit of the Mumbai Police, handed over to the Gujarat Police, profiled as a terrorist of Lashkar-e-Toiba, and then killed in a fake encounter. CBI probe revealed that it was Barot who went to Mumbai and brought him to Ahmedabad.

The CBI chargesheet mentions that SIB, Mumbai, had given him a clean chit, though the SIB didn’t deny that Sadiq was allegedly a member of Dawood’s gang. CBI revealed that Sadiq worked as a domestic help at the home of Tariq Parveen, an associate of Dawood. In 2000, Parveen shifted to Dubai and called Sadiq over in 2002. But in October 2002, Sadiq had an altercation with Parveen’s associate, Pakistan-based Salim Chiplun, and was sent back to India.

The CBI has mentioned SIB assistant director Ambady Gopinathan as a witness who had said that after concluding the report several officials kept watching Sadiq’s move and even visited his home in Bhavnagar and Ahmedabad. A fresh input was generated by SIB officials days before the encounter, stating that Sadiq was out to kill Hindu leaders, including the then CM Narendra Modi.

The CBI probe, however, had several loose ends. The agency arrested Mumbai-based former journalist Ketan Tirodkar in 2012, but did not chargesheet him. Besides, the role of SIB officials and Mumbai police are yet to be established.