Mumbai court to decide on Amit Shah in fake encounter case
Sources said if the special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) accepts Shah’s discharge application, the BJP President will not have to face trial in the case. The case was transferred from Gujarat to Mumbai earlier this year.
The federal investigation agency had charge-sheeted Shah in September, 2013 as he was charged with criminal conspiracy, destruction of evidence and offences under the Arms Act.
According to the CBI, Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauser Bi were kidnapped by Gujarat’s Anti-Terrorism Squad in November 2005 and killed in a fake encounter.
The Gujarat police had claimed Sohrabuddin had links with Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba and planned to assassinate important political leaders. A year later (in December 2006), Tulsiram Prajapati, a witness to the encounter, was killed by the Gujarat police.
Following the controversy, Shah, then a cabinet minister in the Gujarat government led by Chief Minister Narendra Modi, had to step down in 2010 after he was arrested in the case. He got bail three months later.
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