Cops reveal Shah's link with 'fake encounter'
New Delhi: Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah and state Chief Minister Narendra Modi's right hand man will appear before the Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday in the alleged fake encounters of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, his wife Kausar Bi and witness Tulsiram Prajapati.
Now CNN-IBN has accessed details of the interrogation of key police officials which suggest that Amit Shah has been named in connection with the alleged fake encounters in his capacity as Gujarat's Minister of State for Home. The confessions indicate Amit Shah was personally directing Sohrabuddin's encounter.
CNN-IBN has also accessed medical reports in Tulsi Prajapati encounter case, which indicate that he, too, was killed in a fake encounter. Phone call details available with CNN-IBN show shah was in touch with Prajapati's killers. The first key detail comes from the statement given to the CBI by Inspector NV Chauhan, now in jail for his alleged role in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter.
After the encounter, Chauhan was responsible for guarding Sohrabuddin's wife, Kausar Bi, at the Arham farm. In his statement, now with CNN-IBN, Chauhan recounts the sequence of events of that day.
"Vanzara (IPS officer DG Vanzara) was in the garden of Arham Farm in front of me. He got a phone call. The way he greeted the caller, I knew it was Amit Shah. First Vanzara tried to convince Amit Shah not to worry about Kausar Bi. He said they would soon hand her over to the Andhra or Rajasthan police. But then he went silent, and kept listening. After the call ended, he told me that Amit Shah is saying it is too dangerous to keep Kausar Bi alive. He said Amit Shah wanted her body disposed off in a way that it can't be found. So that she may be treated as a missing person," Chauhan says in his statement.
The statement already recorded by the CBI, makes Inspector Chauhan one of the most significant witnesses for the agencies. He was supposedly a confidante of encounter specialist Vanzara. He was with Vanzara all through the encounter episode and with Kausar Bi, till the time she was alive.
Chauhan is not alone in making such statements about Amit Shah. Inspector VL Solanki, the CID officer who initially investigated the Sohrabuddin's encounter case, also gave his statement to the CBI indicating Amit Shah's possible role.
In his preliminary enquiry report prepared by Gujarat state CID, a copy of which is with the CBI, Solanki claims Sohrabuddin was killed in a fake encounter. By December 2006, Inspector Solanki states he had concluded that Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bi were abducted by the police along with one more person, Tulsiram Prajapati alias Prafulla.
Solanki also refers to a conversation he had with then IG Geeta Johri, responsible for inquiry into the encounter killing. He says Johri told him about a meeting called by Amit Shah with PC Pande, then Gujarat DGP and GC Raigar, then ADGP, CID (Crime). According to Johri, Amit Shah was furious and wanted the inquiry report destroyed.
Solanki claims IGP Johri also told him that the inquiry report will have to be amended to favour the accused officers, but that he had refused to do that.
Geeta Johri's role in the case is significant. While she had agreed with findings that Sohrabuddin was killed in cold blood, she was removed by the Supreme Court for going slow in the investigations.
Information with CNN-IBN shows that Inspector Solanki had written a letter to Johri on December 18, 2006 asking for permission to travel to Udaipur where Tulsi Prajapati was being kept in jail. Johri gave the go-ahead, adding that she too would travel to Udaipur. But the permission was not really given. Prajapati was killed 10 days later on December 28. Now, strangely, Solanki's letter has gone missing from official records.
Solanki also says that two days after Prajapati's killing, Johri told him she had been denied permission by GC Raiger. But in a file noting, Johri says that Raigar had given permission a month later in January 2007. But by then, Prajapati was dead, which Johri and Inspector Solanki were aware of.
Solanki's statement says that Raigar's actions were due to pressure from Amit Shah and then DGP, PC Pande.
The statements by Inspector Solanki and Chauhan make clear references to Amit Shah. The Gujarat Minister and Modi's right hand may well be an extremely worried man today.
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