New Delhi, Sep 8 - Political parties, with the exception of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Tuesday slammed the Gujarat government and demanded that Chief Minister Narendra Modi resign for the June 2004 killing of Mumbai collegian Ishrat Jahan in a 'fake encounter'.

A day after an Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate's report that Ishrat Jahan and her three friends were killed in a 'fake encounter', the Congress hit out at the BJP-led administration of Chief Minister Modi and said it was 'a man eating government in Gujarat'.

Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari also appealed to the Supreme Court and Gujarat High Court to 'take suo motu cognizance of all the encounter killings between 2001 and 2009 where there are allegations of fake killings'.

Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said that such killings are 'inhuman' and all those responsible for Ishrat Jahan's death should be punished.

'This is inhuman, if a proper investigation is done then many more skeletons will come out,' the Congress leader told IANS.

He said it was surprising that such things were happening in India and demanded that all the officers responsible be punished.

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) also sought the resignation of Modi on moral grounds.