Affidavit on Ishrat Jahan's Let links was changed at political level: Pillai

New Delhi

An affidavit submitted to the Gujarat High Court in 2009, which spoke of the LeT links of Ishrat Jahan and her accomplices was changed at 'the political level,' Mr Pillai said in an interview to a news channel.

Ishrat, Javed Shaikh, Amjadali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in an alleged encounter in the outskirts of Ahmedbabad in 2004.

Mr Pillai said he could not tell why the affidavit was changed because it was not done at his level, but at a political level.

The former Home Secretary said Ishrat could have been an unwitting player in the hands of LeT, and favoured a probe in the wake of the statement given by Mumbai terror attack convict David Coleman Headley regarding her links with the Pakistan-based terror outfit.

The probe into the encounter was later handed over to CBI, which filed a charge sheet in August 2013, saying that the encounter was fake and executed jointly by the city crime branch and the subsidiary intelligence bureau.