Ishrat case: SC stays probe against magistrate

The Supreme Court on Monday set aside a Gujarat high court order directing an inquiry against judicial magistrate SP Tamang who had held that teenager Ishrat Jahan and three other alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives were killed in a fake encounter by the state police.A bench of justices B Sudershan Reddy and SS Nijjar asked the chief justice of the Gujarat high court to constitute a division bench on the petitions filed by the deceased’s kin, seeking a CBI inquiry. It also asked th…