Sohrabuddin case: another BJP leader under probe
New Delhi: Former Gujarat minister Amit Shah is under arrest for the alleged staged encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh is harassment, but the link of politicians to the murder isn't over yet.
CNN-IBN learns the CBI is investigating BJP leader Ghulab Chand Kataria, who was the Home Minister of Rajasthan in the Vasundhara Raje government, in connection with the 2005 murder of Sohrabuddin. CNN-IBN has a copy of a statement given by Azam Khan, who was in jail along with Sohrabuddin's associate Tulsiram Prajapati in Udaipur from 2005 to 2006, implicating Kataria.
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. Tulsiram, who died in a police encounter in December 2006, had allegedly told Khan that Kataria was paid Rs 10 crore by the owners of R K 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 R K Marbles, in Rajasthan were being harassed by Sohrabuddin for money and they approached Kataria in 2005 for help.
When Dinesh M N, 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.
In the charge-sheet filed by the CBI against Shah on Friday, the role of Rajasthan police officers, who would have come under the charge of Kataria when he was the state home minister, has come in for sharp questioning. The CBI has also found that there was a nexus between the political executives of Gujarat and Rajasthan in Sohrabuddin's murder.
Kataria has rejected the allegations. "All this is wrong. This is pure political vendetta," he said.
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