03-15-2010, 02:47 AM
[size="6"][url="http://www.zeenews.com/news611143.html"]Fresh trouble for Modi; CBI may move SC in Sohrabuddin case[/url][/size]
New Delhi: Within days of being summoned for enquiry by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the 2002 Gujarat riots case, Chief Minister Narendra Modi is facing fresh trouble with the CBI planning to move the Supreme Court again in the alleged Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seems to have run into differences with the Gujarat government and may approach the SC as the state has been declining to handover details of a police encounter of Tulsi Prajapati, who is believed to be an eyewitness in the Sohrabuddin encounter case.
The CBI, which was directed by the Supreme Court to investigate into the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausarbi in 2005, had approached the Gujarat government seeking details of the police encounter of Prajapati, an undertrial who was lodged at Udaipur jail.
According to the state police, Prajapati was killed when he tried to escape from the custody while being shifted back to Gujarat from Rajasthan after attending a court trial.
When contacted, CBI spokesperson Harsh Bahal said, "The Supreme Court had directed the CBI to also look into the larger conspiracy behind the Sohrabuddin case. In this connection, the case record of the death of Prajapati was called for from the government and Director General of Police Gujarat, which is yet to come."
While he refused to divulge further, sources in the investigating agency said if the state government continued to decline the information, the agency may approach the apex court again seeking directions for handing over the details of Prajapati case to it.
The state government had rejected the information to the CBI on the ground that the agency was directed to investigate only Sohrabuddin's killing.
Prajapati's killing had raised many eyebrows as he was perceived to be a sole witness to the killing of Sohrabuddin and his wife. They both were labelled as gangsters.
Prajapati was eliminated by Gujarat police in an encounter in Banaskantha district and the police had said the accused was trying to escape after firing at the personnel escorting him, a claim challenged by the Forensic laboratory report and the Railway Police.
According to the investigations, Prajapati had written a letter from Rajasthan jail to his brother in which he had claimed that he was the lone witness to the "cold-blooded murder" of Sohrabuddin and Kausarbi and Gujarat police was scheming to kill him. The deceased had asked his kin to file a writ petition in Rajasthan High court to prevent his transfer back to Gujarat police.
New Delhi: Within days of being summoned for enquiry by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the 2002 Gujarat riots case, Chief Minister Narendra Modi is facing fresh trouble with the CBI planning to move the Supreme Court again in the alleged Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seems to have run into differences with the Gujarat government and may approach the SC as the state has been declining to handover details of a police encounter of Tulsi Prajapati, who is believed to be an eyewitness in the Sohrabuddin encounter case.
The CBI, which was directed by the Supreme Court to investigate into the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausarbi in 2005, had approached the Gujarat government seeking details of the police encounter of Prajapati, an undertrial who was lodged at Udaipur jail.
According to the state police, Prajapati was killed when he tried to escape from the custody while being shifted back to Gujarat from Rajasthan after attending a court trial.
When contacted, CBI spokesperson Harsh Bahal said, "The Supreme Court had directed the CBI to also look into the larger conspiracy behind the Sohrabuddin case. In this connection, the case record of the death of Prajapati was called for from the government and Director General of Police Gujarat, which is yet to come."
While he refused to divulge further, sources in the investigating agency said if the state government continued to decline the information, the agency may approach the apex court again seeking directions for handing over the details of Prajapati case to it.
The state government had rejected the information to the CBI on the ground that the agency was directed to investigate only Sohrabuddin's killing.
Prajapati's killing had raised many eyebrows as he was perceived to be a sole witness to the killing of Sohrabuddin and his wife. They both were labelled as gangsters.
Prajapati was eliminated by Gujarat police in an encounter in Banaskantha district and the police had said the accused was trying to escape after firing at the personnel escorting him, a claim challenged by the Forensic laboratory report and the Railway Police.
According to the investigations, Prajapati had written a letter from Rajasthan jail to his brother in which he had claimed that he was the lone witness to the "cold-blooded murder" of Sohrabuddin and Kausarbi and Gujarat police was scheming to kill him. The deceased had asked his kin to file a writ petition in Rajasthan High court to prevent his transfer back to Gujarat police.