Police officer N K Amin, one of the accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter killing case who wants to become an approver, was on Wednesday shown the chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation last week.
Amin, who was brought from the Sabarmati central jail to the district court in connection with some other case, filed an application in the CBI court asking for a copy of the chargesheet.
His application was approved by the court and he was allowed to see the chargesheet in the court room itself.
Amin, who wants to turn an approver in the case, had also sought pardon from the court in an application filed by him on Monday.
However, eight accused in the case, including three suspended IPS officers--D G Vanzara, Dinesh M N and Rajkumar Pandian -- have objected to Amin's plea to turn approver.
According to the CBI chargesheet, Amin, though he was not posted with ATS, was in constant touch with Vanzara, Pandiyan and Amit Shah, the then Gujarat minister of state for home during the period when Sohrabuddin was killed in a police encounter in November 2005.
"He (Amin) made/received as many as 25 calls from/to Shah between November 21, 2005 and November 30, 2005," it said.
Meanwhile, one of the absconders in the fake encounter case Yashpal Chudasama on Wednesday filed an application through his lawyer seeking a copy of the chargesheet.
