Gandhinagar, August 08: The Gujarat high court extended the judicial custody of former Gujarat minister Amir Shah till August 21 in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has been questioning Shah for two days.
Shah, who was kept in a lock-up at CBI office on Saturday night in Gandhinagar, was brought for interrogation at the agency’s camp office in block 11 of old secretariat campus.
Shah was grilled by the CBI for over nine hours on Saturday, but the minister gave evasive answers, according to sources.
Sources said that Shah was medically examined before and after interrogation by the CBI.
During the course of interrogation, Shah’s lawyers were present, but at a distance.
The Gujarat high court on August 6, setting aside a lower court order, remanded the former minister of state for home in two-day CBI custody.
The CBI had sought Shah’s remand on the ground that he was the “kingpin” of the entire conspiracy leading to the encounter of Sohrabuddin, killing of his wife Kausar Bi and also Tulsi Prajapati, a key witness.
–Agencies