A Gujarat police team had shot dead four persons, including 19-year-old Ishrat, a resident of Maharashtra's Thane town, June 15, 2004 on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, claiming that she had been a terror operative who had reached the city to eliminate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

The three other persons, who too had been shot dead by the police team were identified as Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai, Amjad Ali alias Rajkumar Akbar Ali Rana and Jisan Johar Abdul Gani.

But Tamang, who conducted the mandatory magisterial probe under the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code, concluded that Ishrat Jahan and three others were murdered by police in cold blood in a staged gun battle.

However, the Gujarat government had Sep 9, acting on a lawsuit by the Gujarat government, suspended Tamang's report, saying that it was beyond the jurisdiction of the judicial magistrate.