NEW DELHI: Seeking sanction to prosecute the then joint director of Intelligence Bureau Rajinder Kumar in Ishrat Jahan encounter case, CBI has sent clarification to the home ministry reiterating that there was ample evidence to prosecute the officer.The agency has recently dispatched its clarification countering 12 apparent holes that the home ministry has picked in CBI plea seeking sanction to prosecute Kumar.The ministry had asked some pointed questions related to agency's theory of planting weapons on the victims, testimony of witnesses, identity of those involved among others.The home ministry had also asked explanation of the agency on its position regarding the chief of Ahmedabad Police in the case.CBI sources said agency did not provide any new details but reiterated its previous position on all the points raised by the ministry while justifying that Ku mar was a fit case to be prosecuted in the case following his alleged participation in the criminal conspiracy .Home ministry and CBI have locked horns over the issue as the agency has re fused to share the details of the case.While IB, which comes under MHA, be lieves that the encounter -in which Ishrat Jahan was killed along with three others by Gujarat crime branch in Ah medabad in June 2004 -was a genu ine counter-terror operation, CBI be lieves otherwise.