The Ishrat Jahan encounter case has lost one of its two petitioners. father of Pranesh Pillai alias Javed Ghulam Shaikh, who was among those killed in the 2004 encunter — died on Friday. Gopinath Pillai succumbed to injuries sustained in a road accident that occurred on Wednesday morning in Alappuzha district of Kerala.
The Ishrat Jahan encounter case has lost one of its two petitioners. father of Pranesh Pillai alias Javed Ghulam Shaikh, who was among those killed in the 2004 encunter — died on Friday. Gopinath Pillai succumbed to injuries sustained in a road accident that occurred on Wednesday morning in Alappuzha district of Kerala.