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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Ex-Gujarat minister Amit Shah charged in fake encounter case

Ex-Gujarat minister Amit Shah charged in fake encounter case

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published Published on Sep 5, 2012   modified Modified on Sep 5, 2012
-The Times of India

The CBI on Tuesday named former Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah and over half a dozen IPS officers, including former CID (crime) chief OP Mathur, as accused in the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case of 2006. They were among the 20 people named in the CBI chargesheet.

Considered to be one of the favourite cops of chief minister Narendra Modi, Mathur and former state police chief P C Pande, are accused of derailing the probe in the case. Mathur has been charged with culpable homicide amounting to murder, conspiracy and destruction of evidence among others.

Officers of CID (crime), IPS Geetha Johri and investigating officer R K Patel have also been charged with criminal conspiracy, murder, and destruction of evidence. They had investigated the fake encounter before the probe was handed over to the CBI.

Besides Shah, the chargesheet names four cops - IPS officers D G Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandian, Dinesh MN and a police inspector from Rajasthan Abdul Rehman Shaikh - who are already behind bars in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.

The CBI says the killing of Tulsiram, a gangster, was an effort to eliminate a key witness to Sohrabuddin and his wife Kauserbi's killings in 2005. Shah was arrested on July 25, 2010 in the Sohrabuddin case. He was granted bail on October 29 the same year. The Supreme Court has barred him from entering Gujarat after the CBI challenged his bail.

The investigating agency moved a magisterial court in Danta in Banaskantha on Tuesday to file the chargesheet against the 20 people. Tulsiram was allegedly killed by Gujarat and Rajasthan cops at Chhapri village near Ambaji in Banaskantha on December 28, 2006.

Tulsiram's encounter took place two weeks after the investigating officer in the Sohrabuddin encounter case, V L Solanki, sought permission from Johri to interrogate Tulsiram at Udaipur central jail. Johri, allegedly, at the instance of her superiors, denied permission to Solanki.

Mathur's role came under scanner after a former investigator, Rajnish Rai, wrote to Johri in mid-2007 requesting her to collect a vital piece of evidence - a CD - from then the CID (crime) head. Rai claimed he had submitted the CD to Mathur - the evidence never came on record.

Rai also highlighted the fact before the Central Administrative Tribunal how Mathur and Pande tried to sabotage the probe. His file notings revealed how Pande tried to change the action taken reports meant to be sent to the Supreme Court in the encounter cases.

Names of police officers from Andhra Pradesh, who had allegedly played a role in Sorabuddin and Kauserbi's fake encounter, don't appear in the CBI's chargesheet in the Tulsiram case. IPS officer Abhay Chudasama, who has been jailed in the Sohrabuddin case, has been kept out.


The Times of India, 5 September, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Ex-Gujarat-minister-Amit-Shah-charged-in-fake-encounter-case/articleshow/16256578.cms


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