Udaipur,September 14:Unknown assailants attempted to gun down Azam Khan, a prime witness in the Sohrabuddin encounter case on Tuesday in Udaipur.
Khan was rushed to the government hospital in Udaipur, where according to police his condition was stable.
Udaipur superintendent of police (SP) S K Narzari, told media that two motorcycle borne men, wielding a gun, fired at Khan and immediately escaped the area.
“Azam Khan was injured on his hand and has been admitted to the hospital. The police have already put up road check posts in the area,” Narzari said.
Khan, is a prime witness for the CBI in the Sohrabuddin encounter case and had served time in jail with Tulsiram Prajapati, who was also killed in an encounter on December 28, 2006.
The CBI believes Prajapati had told Khan of the Gujarat police’s intentions to kill him in an encounter as he knew too much about the Sohrabuddin case.
————Agencies