Ahmedabad: Gujarat's former Deputy Inspector General of Police DG Vanzara on Tuesday asserted in a special court that the CBI wanted to take custody of then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and then Minister of State for Home Amit Shah in the Ishrat Jahan fake shootout case.

Arguing for Vanzara in a discharge petition ragistered in the CBI court headed  by J.K. Pandya, his counsel VD Gajjar claimed that though the Central Bureau of Investigation intended to arrest Modi and Shah, "fortunately" it did not happen.

Vanzara is out on bail in the case and had earlier submitted in the same court that Modi was secretly questioned by the case Investigating Officer when he was the Chief Minister.

Worth mention here The CBI had given a clean chit in 2014 to Shah on grounds of "insufficient evidence".

On a related note In June 2004, Mumbai-based 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan, her friend Javed alias Pranesh, and Pakistani nationals Zeeshan Johar and Amzad Ali Rana were gunned down by a team of Vanzara's men in a exchanging fires on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.

Vanzara's lawyer on Tuesday claimed that the charge-sheet aligned with his client in the case was "concocted" and that there was no prosecutable evidence against the former police officer.

The court adjourned the matter for next hearing on June 15.