Gujarat High Court on Monday rejected the bail application of V A Rathod, an accused in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case who was described as an "important witness" in a Central Bureau of Investigation chargesheet filed last year.
Eight police officials accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, including D G Vanzara, have objected to another accused police officer N K Amin turning approver in the case. The eight accused in the case, including three suspended Indian Police Service officers -- Vanzara, Dinesh M N and Rajkumar Pandian -- have informed the court through their lawyer Prayesh Limbachia that they have objections to Amin's application to turn approver.
The court had ordered the CBI probe in April 2011 on an appeal by Tulsiram Prajapati's mother Narmada Bai, who had alleged that her son was killed by the Gujarat Police in a staged gun battle because he was a key eyewitness in the November 2005 killings of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausar Bi.
Incarcerated IPS officer Rajkumar Pandiyan, an accused in Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter killing case, has been threatening witnesses from inside the jail, the Central Bureau of Investigation alleged before the Gujarat High Court.
Giving a clean chit to Gandhi, EC officials said the "complaint was examined in detail and after examination of the complete transcript of speech sent by the district electoral officer of Jabalpur, the Commission is of the considered view that no violation of the model code of conduct is made out."
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday took over the case related to fake encounter of Tulsiram Prajapati -- a key witness to the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausarbi -- by re-registering FIR in its Mumbai office.
In an embarrassment to the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Gujarat, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the alleged fake encounter killing of Tulsiram Prajapati, stated to be an eyewitness in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case allegedly involving former state minister Amit Shah.
A special court in Ahmedabad rejected on Wednesday the Central Bureau of Investigation application seeking the custody of former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
The government has rejected the Bharatiya Janata Party's charge that it misused the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case in which Gujarat Minister Amit Shah has been summoned by the probe agency.
The Supreme Court sought the Gujarat government's response on the CBI's plea to transfer the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case outside the state on the ground that even the judge hearing it had become "servile" to former state home minister Amit Shah, a key accused.
An Indian Police Services officer accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case on Thursday sought bail on grounds of parity that one of the key accused in the case was granted bail by the Gujarat high court recently.
A Central Bureau of Investigation court in Mumbai on Tuesday discharged Gujarat's former police chief P C Pande in the fake encounter killing case of Tulsiram Prajapati, an aide of slain gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh, for want of mandatory sanction from the state government for his prosecution.
Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Ahmedabad Crime Branch Abhay Chudasama was on Wednesday arrested in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. He is the fourth police officer to be taken into custody in connection with the encounter.Central Bureau of Investigation's Deputy Inspector General P Kandaswamy confirmed that Chudasama had been arrested. He has been accused of conspiring to kill Sohrabuddin.This is the first arrest by the CBI.
The arguments remained inconclusive and would continue on Friday.
A Gujarat high court judge on Friday recused himself from hearing the bail plea of suspended Indian Police Service officer Abhay Chudasama who was arrested on the charge of being the key conspirator in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
The special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Ahmedabad adjourned the hearing on the bail application of former Gujarat minister Amit Shah, arrested in connection with the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, till September 9.
Indian Police Services officer Geetha Johri, who headed the Gujarat Crime Investigation Department probe into the 2005 fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and killing of his wife Kausar Bi, was on Thursday questioned for over eight hours by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The Central Bureau of Investigation special court will on Tuesday decide on the bail plea of former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah, who was arrested in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. The hearing in the court of CBI Judge G K Upadhyay was adjourned on August 11 following a request for adjournment by Shah's lawyer Mitesh Amin on the grounds that their senior counsel Ram Jethmalani was unable to be present that day.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday used Union minister Mamata Banerjee's statement, questioning the encounter of Maoist leader Azad, to draw parallels with the Sohrabuddin case and demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry into the Naxal's death as well.
The six municipal corporations, which comprise major urban areas of the state like Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Bhavnagar and Jamnagar are going to polls after October this year.
The Gujarat high court extended the judicial custody of former Gujarat minister Amir Shah till August 21 in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday issued notice to Amit Shah while hearing CBI's petition challenging a lower court order rejecting its plea for remand of the former Gujarat minister arrested in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday challenged in the Gujarat high court the order of a lower court rejecting its plea for the remand of former Gujarat minister Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. The CBI's plea, demanding 10-day custody of Shah, was rejected on Wednesday by the court, saying the probe agency does not have substantial grounds to seek his remand. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate A Y Dave had rejected the CBI's application.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday concluded its three-day grilling of Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case, during which the former Gujarat minister reportedly did not give satisfactory replies to questions put to him despite an assurance by his lawyer that he would cooperate in the probe. Sources in the CBI said a four-member team of the investigating agency quizzed Shah for the third consecutive day for nearly four hours.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi took a dig on Thursday at Congress saying the party will have to field officers of the investigating agency in coming municipal polls.
Former Gujarat minister Amit Shah was grilled for nearly three hours on Thursday inside the Sabarmati Central jail in Ahmedabad in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case but he did not give any satisfactory answers, Central Bureau of Investigation said.
Senior advocate K T S Tulsi will appear for the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, in which former Gujarat Minister Amit Shah is an accused and is being represented by eminent lawyer Ram Jethmalani.
The Central Bureau of Investigation issued summons to Geetha Johri, the investigating officer in the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and killing of his wife Kausarbi, on Thursday and asked her to appear before the agency by August 10.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, which is expected to interrogate former Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, has built up a watertight case, agency sources have told rediff.com.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday called the owner of Arham farm, where alleged gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausarbi were kept, for questioning in connection with the fake encounter case. "Rajendra Jirawal, who has a house in Arham farm, has been called for questioning by the CBI," said Rajendra's brother Surendra, who is a corporator in the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. "We have not been given intimation of his arrest," he said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has summoned two retired Indian Police Service officers, who had at one point of time headed the probe into the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case as chiefs of state Central Investigation Department, and questioned one of them.
Facing charges of murder and kidnapping, Shah, a close associate of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, said the charges against him were "fabricated and politically motivated".
The Centre berated the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday for its "angry" reaction to the Central Bureau of Investigation pursuit against Gujarat Minister Amit Shah, saying it was "belated and simulated".
The Communist Party of India-Marxist on Friday demanded the resignation of Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah in view of the CBI naming him as an accused in the chargesheet filed in the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh.
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued fresh directions to the Madhya Pradesh government to provide adequate security to Rubabuddin Sheikh, brother of Sohrabuddin Sheikh who was killed in a fake encounter by the Gujarat police.
The brother of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, who was killed in a fake encounter, has sent notices to three Bharatiya Janata Party leaders demanding an explanation on why he should not file contempt of court petition against them for their remarks on the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The Gujarat police continued to help Chief Minister Narender Modi's close aide Amit Shah even after his arrest for his alleged role in the killing of gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh in the fake encounter, Central Bureau of Investigation said in a report submitted to the Supreme Court on Thursday.
The Gujarat police has accepted as fake the encounter in which Tulsi Prajapati, a key witness in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh murder case, was killed, top state CID officials have said.
They include Geetha Johri, who was the Investigating Officer when the case was being probed by the State CID, according to CBI sources. The central agency has also called Rajneesh Rai, who was the one who had arrested three IPS officers, D G Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandian and Dinesh M N, considered to be main conspirators behind the encounter of Sheikh and disappearance of his wife Kauserbi in November 2005, they said.
As another Indian Penal Service officer lands behind bars in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, killing of the key witness in the episode is now set to haunt the Gujarat police.Tulsi Prajapati, Sheikh's friend and a witness in the encounter case, was gunned down in 2006."Eventually, it will have to be admitted that it was also a fake encounter," a senior official said.
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