Former Gujarat police officer PP Pande.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI court in Ahmedabad has granted bail to former Gujarat police officer PP Pande in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case.
Eight police officers were chargesheeted in the case; five officers, including IPS officer GL Singhal, are already out on bail.
Mr Pande, a former additional director general of Gujarat police, is the sixth officer to be granted bail in the case.
The court is expected to deliver its order on the bail plea of former officer DG Vanzara today afternoon.
Mr Pande was arrested in August 2013 for allegedly conspiring with the other accused officials to carry out the encounter of Ishrat Jehan in 2004.
Mr Pande was head of the Ahmedabad Crime Branch when the encounter took place.
The CBI had vehemently opposed the bail pleas of these officers, and stated that Mr Pande and Mr Vanzara had actively taken part in the fake encounter; lawyers of the police officers had argued that they had been falsely implicated in the case.
In 2004, Ishrat Jahan, a 19-year-old, and three other men were shot dead by officers who claimed that they were involved in a plot to kill Narendra Modi, who was Chief Minister of Gujarat at the time.