Shift Sohrabuddin case outside Guj: CBI to SC
Ahmedabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday requested the Supreme Court to transfer the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case outside Gujarat claiming that the atmosphere in the state was not conducive to a fair investigation. The agency made the request while filing its report on the Sohrabuddin encounter case to the Supreme Court and sought more time to investigate.
CBI also said in the report that their investigation could go beyond former Gujarat minister Amit Shah, who is already under arrest in the case.
The agency also requested the Supreme Court to transfer the Tulsi Prajapati encounter case to it as it may be related to Sohrabuddin encounter. Meanwhile, Gujarat CID on Friday filed a 1000-page chargesheet in the encounter case of Tulsi Prajapati against seven police officials in Danta court of Banaskantha district of Gujarat. The chargesheet names three IPS officers - DG Vanzara, Vipul Agrawal and Dinesh MN -as the main accused in the case.
All the accused have been charged with murder, kidnapping, giving false evidence and conspiracy. A total of 139 witnesses have been quoted in the chargesheet. The CID has so far arrested Banaskantha SP Vipul Agarwal and inspector Ashish Pandya in the case.
Vanzara and Dinesh have been in police custody for over three years in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
Prajapati was the sole witness to the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter in November 2005. He was killed a year later in December 2006.
Some more BJP leaders could be in trouble over the alleged staged encounter killing of Sohrabuddin.
CNN-IBN has a copy of a statement given by Azam Khan, who was in jail along with Prajapati in Udaipur from 2005 to 2006.
Azam, in a statement to the CBI, has alleged that Prajapati and Sohrabuddin used to extort money from businessmen for Gujarat IPS officer Abhay Chudasama. Prajapati had allegedly told Khan that former Rajasthan home minister and BJP leader Ghulab Chand Kataria was paid Rs 10 crore by the owners of RK Marbles for killing Sohrabuddin.
CNN-IBN has accessed a preliminary CBI probe report that mentions Kataria's alleged role in Sohrabuddin's death. The investigating agency believes that prominent marble traders, including RK Marbles, in Rajasthan were being harassed by Sohrabuddin for money and they approached Kataria in 2005 for help.
When Dinesh, an IPS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, was arrested in connection with the encounter in 2007, Kataria and the then DGP of Rajasthan flew to Gujarat to intervene on his behalf.
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