While the Centre and Sohrabuddin's brother Rubbabuddin Sheikh had sought a CBI probe, the Gujarat government has strongly opposed the same.
Johri met Balwinder Singh for about 15 minutes. She also met Trivedi for over two hours. When mediapersons waiting at Trivedi's office literally mobbed her, she left the venue without answering their queries.
The officials, however, believe these tests will help them speed up their investigation
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the proceedings in a trial court over the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in a fake encounter by the Gujarat police
The poll watchdog had on Sunday held that Modi and Sonia Gandhi violated the model code of conduct by their remarks but was carping in its comments on the chief minister whose speech it said aggravated differences between communities.
The bench said that at this stage, the contemnor need not be present in person.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has sought more time from the Election Commission for a reply regarding his comments on the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case.
According to sources in the BJP, raking up the Soharbuddin case is just a "trailer" in the election-eve madness
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Mumbai on Friday granted anticipatory bail to former Rajasthan Home Minister Gulabchand Kataria and three others who were charge sheeted in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter killing case.
The Gujarat CID on Monday filed a chargesheet against 13 police officials, including DIG D G Vanzara, before the metropolitan court in Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
Another Gujarat police official, M L Parmar, accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case surrendered before the CID on Friday.
The agency also brushed aside his statement, given to court the day he surrendered, that a statement was extracted from him under duress by the previous supervisor of the case Rajnish Rai.
A Bench of Justices Tarun Chatterjee and P K Balasubramanyan said it would pass appropriate orders on Thursday, but asked the Centre whether it was advisable to order a CBI probe at this juncture.
This is the second time that Geeta Johri visited Andhra Pradesh for this case.
It may be recalled that Sohrabuddin, his wife Kausar Bi and another person had boarded a private bus from Hyderabad in November 2005 when they were forcibly off-loaded from the bus by a team of the Gujarat police.
The three policemen have been charged with abduction, illegal confinement and murder and are likely to be produced before the court for remand.
The digging work was conducted largely in and around an abandoned well that is in a farm behind Vanzara's massive bungalow and is owned by him and located in Sabarkatha district, about 100 km from Ahmedabad.
Investigations into the mysterious disappearance of Kausar Bi, the wife of Sohrabuddin Sheikh who was allegedly killed in a fake encounter in Ahmedabad in 2005 after being dubbed a terrorist by police, could throw up some grisly facts.
The court said it will pass its order after receiving a report from the Gujarat government whether it would be able to produce Kausar Bi, wife of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, who was branded as a Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant and killed in an encounter.
Dayal, a senior reporter with the Gujarati daily Divya Bhaskar, who broke the story first in November 2006.
The Supreme Court will hear on Wednesday an application seeking to make Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi a co-accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case on the basis of his alleged statement justifying the act.
He also asked the Election Commission to take action against Congress president Sonia Gandhi for her 'merchant of death' remarks against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
The Gujarat CID, probing the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, has submitted its Action Taken Report in the 2005 case to the Supreme Court, a senior official said on Thursday.
He was, however, released after producing a personal bond as he has already got an anticipatory bail from a local court, the CID official said.
The CID has so far arrested six policemen in the fake encounter case, including the three IPS officers D G Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandian and Dinesh M N. The three IPS officials were arrested on April 24.
Inspector N H Dabhi, and constables Ajay Parmar and Santram Sharma were produced before a magistrate by the state CID (Crime), which is probing the case.
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the demand for a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the Gujarat fake encounter case.
The concerned official is known to have worked with one of the arrested senior IPS officers, D G Vanzara, when he was heading the Ahmedabad Crime Branch.
The three are likely to be taken to Hyderabad during their remand, CID sources said on Wednesday.
Controversial IPS official D G Vanzara, however, claimed that the charges against him were interpolation and concocted.
Rajnish Rai, the supervisory officer of the CID (crime) probing the fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, has been asked to discontinue with the probe.
The CID has detained certain policemen of the ranks of Inspector, Sub-inspector and Constable, who were members of the team that tracked Sohrabuddin all the way from Hyderabad and then were part of the encounter near Ahmedabad.
The Supreme Court admitted the petition seeking CBI inquiry into the fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and a habeas corpus petition seeking to trace his wife Kausar Bi.
"We have taken the three accused IPS officers -- D G Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandiyan and Dinesh Kumar M N to different places including a farm-house where Kausar Bi is suspected to have been eliminated," a police source said.
About 150 advocates of the Metropolitan Court wrote a letter to the Bar Association vice-president saying none of them would appear on behalf of Vanjhara as he had "troubled advocates in the past."
A meticulous probe by Gujarat's CID (Crime) had some days ago indicated that Kausar could have been killed at an isolated place near state capital Gandhinagar.
The Apex Court will hear the matter on Friday.
Police had claimed that Sohrabuddin was killed in a joint operation by the Gujarat and Rajasthan police in 2005.
The official under scrutiny, N K Amin, is a Deputy Superintendent of Police in the CID and worked previously under D G Vanzara.
Vanzara has a heart ailment and has been treated for the same several times in the recent past, said advocate Mitesh Amin when the plea for conducting narco-analysis tests on Vanzara and five others arrested in the case came up for hearing.
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