When home ministry declared them terrorists

Four years before the CBI filed a chargesheet declaring as fake the 2004 "encounter" in which Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed, the home ministry had filed an affidavit in the Gujarat High Court describing the four's alleged links with the Lashkar-e-Toiba. A look at what the affidavit, filed in August 2009 by R V S Mani, then undersecretary for internal security in the ministry, had to say about each of the four.

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