Ishrat Sheikh

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Ishrat Sheikh also known as Ishrat Jehan (1975-June 15, 2004) was an Indian teenager who was killed along with three alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba militants in Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004 in a police encounter. It was alleged that she too was a terrorist. This led to much controversy as there were claims that she had no links to terrorism at all.

Thousands of people showed up at her funeral and a politian donated a considerable amount of money to her family.

Later in July 2004, the Lashkar-e-Toiba said that she was a woman activist of the outfit.

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• "Ishrat Sheikh buried amongst tight police security" - Indiainfo.com article dated June 19, 2004
• "Thousands turn out to bid Ishrat farewell" - Times of India article dated June 20, 2004
• "LeT describes Ishrat as its woman activist" - Sify.com article dated July 15, 2004
• "Lashkar owns up Ishrat" - Times of India article dated July 14, 2004
• "One more encounter for Modi's sake?" - www.pucl.org