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CBI quizzes Amit Shah in Tulsiram Prajapati case
The CBI on Tuesday questioned former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah in connection with the 2006 encounter of Tulsiram Prajapati, a key witness to the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausarbi.
Shah, already named by the CBI in the chargesheet relating to alleged conspiracy for Sohrabuddin encounter, arrived at the agency’s headquarters here this morning and was quizzed by its sleuths for about eight hours.
Shah did not talk to the waiting journalists after he emerged from the headquarters building after his grilling.
Sources said Shah, out on bail after being arrested in the Sohrabuddin case, was evasive in answering the questions while he was confronted with the statements of others quizzed by the CBI so far.
During the interrogation, the CBI confronted the BJP leader with telephone records of his conversations with police officers including Deputy Inspector General of Police (Jail) DG Vanzara.
Shah has been asked by the Supreme Court not to enter Gujarat as the agency alleged that he may tamper with the evidence or intimidate witnesses.
Prajapati, a close aide of Sohrabuddin, was killed in an alleged shootout near Chapri village in Banaskantha district on December 28, 2006.
The CBI took over the case last April following direction from the Supreme Court and registered a case against “police officials of Gujarat and Rajasthan and others for alleged involvement in the criminal conspiracy of wrongful restraint, wrongful confinement, abduction and murder of Tulsi Prajapati and causing disappearance of evidence”.
The CBI on Tuesday questioned former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah in connection with the 2006 encounter of Tulsiram Prajapati, a key witness to the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausarbi.
Shah, already named by the CBI in the chargesheet relating to alleged conspiracy for Sohrabuddin encounter, arrived at the agency’s headquarters here this morning and was quizzed by its sleuths for about eight hours.
Shah did not talk to the waiting journalists after he emerged from the headquarters building after his grilling.
Sources said Shah, out on bail after being arrested in the Sohrabuddin case, was evasive in answering the questions while he was confronted with the statements of others quizzed by the CBI so far.
During the interrogation, the CBI confronted the BJP leader with telephone records of his conversations with police officers including Deputy Inspector General of Police (Jail) DG Vanzara.
Shah has been asked by the Supreme Court not to enter Gujarat as the agency alleged that he may tamper with the evidence or intimidate witnesses.
Prajapati, a close aide of Sohrabuddin, was killed in an alleged shootout near Chapri village in Banaskantha district on December 28, 2006.
The CBI took over the case last April following direction from the Supreme Court and registered a case against “police officials of Gujarat and Rajasthan and others for alleged involvement in the criminal conspiracy of wrongful restraint, wrongful confinement, abduction and murder of Tulsi Prajapati and causing disappearance of evidence”.
