Filing the closure report in Tis Hazari courts, the CBI said the accused persons had killed the victim in a manner to show that he died in an encounter.

The CBI took up the probe following the High Court’s orders and requested the city police chief to grant sanction to prosecute Vinay Tyagi, Atul Tyagi, Satish Rana (then sub-inspectors), Satinder Singh, Neeraj Kumar, Nagender (then head constables), Prem Pal Singh, Rajkumar, Hari Om, Naresh Pal, Sudhir Kumar, Rustam Ahmad and Upender (then constables).

But, “the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi did not find it a fit case for grant of sanction to prosecute the accused,” the CBI said in its report, filed under CrPC Section 173.

As per FIR filed by the policemen, they raided a house in east Delhi’s Pandav Nagar on January 11, 2002 following a tip-off that Rupender, alias Kanu Jat, wanted in several cases in Ghaziabad and Delhi, was hiding there. At the house, Rupender fired shots at them, which forced the police team to fire back in self-defence, the FIR said.

Rupender was killed in the retaliatory fire, the police team claimed.

The CBI probe found neither gunshot residue on hands of the deceased nor his fingerprints on the revolver allegedly recovered from him. They also found that the deceased was lying on the ground with his hands up.

“It is established that the accused have killed Rupender to show that he died in an encounter,” the CBI alleged. The agency then moved application under CrPC Section 197 (prosecution of public servant), seeking sanction to prosecute the policemen, but filed the closure report after failing to get the government’s sanction.

The court will consider the case on March 10.

Newsline tried to contact L-G Tejendra Khanna but he was not available.