CBI has called up the former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah, to Delhi for questioning in connection with the 2006 fake encounter of Tulsiram Prajapati.
However Tulsiram Prajapati was a key witness to the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausarbi.
Shah, who is considered a close aid of chief minister Narendra Modi, is out on bail after being arrested in the Sohrabuddin case.
CBI asked him to appear at the agency headquarters for questioning in the Prajapati case as early as Tuesday during which CBI is expected to confront the BJP leader with telephone records about him being allegedly in touch with police officers including the deputy inspector general of police (Jail) DG Vanzara.
Although the Supreme Court allowed him not to enter Gujarat as the agency alleged that he may tamper with the evidence, and last April on Supreme Court directions, CBI registered a case against police officials of Gujarat and Rajasthan and others for alleged involvement in the criminal conspiracy of wrongful restraint, wrongful confinement, abduction and murder of Tulsi Prajapati and causing disappearance of evidence.
On December 28, 2006, Prajapati, a gangster, was killed in an alleged shoot-out near Chapri village in Banaskantha district.
While a petition filed by Narmada Bai, Prajapati’s mother, the FIR was registered following Supreme Court’s order on April 8 last and the probe was carried out by the special investigation team (SIT) of CBI officers.
Allegation made by Bai over killing her son in a fake encounter by the Gujarat police as he was a key eyewitness in the November 2005 killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, CBI get help of the forensic experts in reconstructing the alleged fake encounter of Prajapati by Gujarat police in 2006.
In fact, CBI has accused two police officers Yashpal Chudasama and Ajay Patel seemed to close with Shah in the last week of December, along with Shah and a charge sheet against them has filed in regard of trying to influence witness and derail CBI probe in the Sheikh Encounter case.
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