In a setback to Gujarat government, a judicial probe says the 2004 killing of young college girl Ishrat Jahan and three others suspected to be on a mission to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi was a case of fake encounter by the police.

Metropolitan Magistrate SP Tamang's probe report submitted in the metropolitan court here on Monday said the four persons who were also suspected to be having links with Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) were killed in cold blood by the police. Magistrate Tamang in his report has claimed that the four were not linked to LeT.