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Shah named in CBI chargesheet
There is more trouble for former Minister of State for Home Amit Shah as the CBI on Tuesday named him in their chargesheet filed in the 2006 Tulsiram Prajapati encounter case.
Shah is among the 20 people named in the chargesheet, including several IPS officers. The others named in the chargesheet include suspended DIG DG Vanzara, retired DGPs PC Pande and OP Mathur, Additional DGP Geetha Johri, IPS officers R.K.Pandian, Dinesh MN and Vipul Agarwal, Deputy SP RK Patel and several other junior level policemen.
Vanzara, Pandian and Dinesh are already behind bars for their role in the fake encounter killing of extortionist Sohrabuddin Sheikh while Vipul Agarwal is under arrest for Prajapati’s encounter killing.
According sources, the CBI team has charged Shah and others with murder, criminal conspiracy, destruction of evidence and various clauses of Arms Act.
Tulsiram Prajapati, an accomplice of slain extortionist Sohrabuddin Sheikh, was killed in an encounter in December 2006 near Rajasthan border allegedly because he was an eyewitness to the abduction of the latter days before he was killed in a fake encounter in November 2005.
Shah, who was earlier arrested by the CBI in July 2010 for his alleged role in Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, is currently out on bail but forbidden by the Supreme Court from entering Gujarat.
The chargesheet was filed in the local court at Danta in Banaskantha district of north Gujarat on Tuesday evening following Supreme Court instructions to the CBI team.
Prajapati was killed at Chhapri village of Danta taluka in December 2006, one year after the encounter death of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausar Bi.
The apex court had ordered the CBI probe following a petition by slain Prajapati’s mother Narmadaben that her son was killed in a fake encounter.
As part of the investigations, the CBI had questioned retired Director General of Police OP Mathur who is currently Director of the Raksha Shakti University near Gandhinagar.
Mathur, who was then the Additional DGP of CID (Crime), is alleged to have attempted to scuttle the earlier probe into the encounter.
The then Investigating Officer Geetha Johri, presently an Additional DGP, was allegedly asked by Mathur to dilute the probe into the encounter killing.
Johri too was quizzed by the CBI several times while Rajasthan’s former Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria was also questioned in connection with the encounter killings.
There is more trouble for former Minister of State for Home Amit Shah as the CBI on Tuesday named him in their chargesheet filed in the 2006 Tulsiram Prajapati encounter case.
Shah is among the 20 people named in the chargesheet, including several IPS officers. The others named in the chargesheet include suspended DIG DG Vanzara, retired DGPs PC Pande and OP Mathur, Additional DGP Geetha Johri, IPS officers R.K.Pandian, Dinesh MN and Vipul Agarwal, Deputy SP RK Patel and several other junior level policemen.
Vanzara, Pandian and Dinesh are already behind bars for their role in the fake encounter killing of extortionist Sohrabuddin Sheikh while Vipul Agarwal is under arrest for Prajapati’s encounter killing.
According sources, the CBI team has charged Shah and others with murder, criminal conspiracy, destruction of evidence and various clauses of Arms Act.
Tulsiram Prajapati, an accomplice of slain extortionist Sohrabuddin Sheikh, was killed in an encounter in December 2006 near Rajasthan border allegedly because he was an eyewitness to the abduction of the latter days before he was killed in a fake encounter in November 2005.
Shah, who was earlier arrested by the CBI in July 2010 for his alleged role in Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, is currently out on bail but forbidden by the Supreme Court from entering Gujarat.
The chargesheet was filed in the local court at Danta in Banaskantha district of north Gujarat on Tuesday evening following Supreme Court instructions to the CBI team.
Prajapati was killed at Chhapri village of Danta taluka in December 2006, one year after the encounter death of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausar Bi.
The apex court had ordered the CBI probe following a petition by slain Prajapati’s mother Narmadaben that her son was killed in a fake encounter.
As part of the investigations, the CBI had questioned retired Director General of Police OP Mathur who is currently Director of the Raksha Shakti University near Gandhinagar.
Mathur, who was then the Additional DGP of CID (Crime), is alleged to have attempted to scuttle the earlier probe into the encounter.
The then Investigating Officer Geetha Johri, presently an Additional DGP, was allegedly asked by Mathur to dilute the probe into the encounter killing.
Johri too was quizzed by the CBI several times while Rajasthan’s former Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria was also questioned in connection with the encounter killings.
