Police yet to link girl to terrorist outfit

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">MUMBAI: Giving a new twist to the Ahmedabad encounter in which three suspected LeT terrorists and a girl from Mumbra in neighbouring Thane district here were killed, the Thane Crime Branch on Thursday said it was "yet to find any evidence of the girl''s links with the terrorist outfit."</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">"We have still not found any evidence that could lead to the girl''s links with any terrorist group," ACP Amar Jadhav said here.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">The Mumbra-based girl, Ishrat Jahan Shaikh, was killed in an encounter with Gujarat police at Ahmedabad for allegedly plotting to kill Modi on June 15.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">The Thane Crime Branch officials carried out a thorough search of Ishrat''s residence in Mumbra and a team also visited her college, Gurunanak Khalsa College in Matunga, central Mumbai.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">Meanwhile, college authorities have been quoted as saying that Ishrat was a regular student and had secured admissions to second year BSc this year opting for Maths and Statistics.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-family:="" arial="" font-size:="">She had secured a second class in her first year BSc exams, they said.</span></div> </div>