New Delhi, July 25: The CBI is likely to take the custody of junior Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah next week after examining two senior police officials including Geetha Johri, who was part of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team probing the 2002 communal riots.
Sources in the investigating agency said that Shah, who was arrested in Gandhinagar today after he surrendered, needs to be confronted with some people who were being examined by the CBI in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
A close aide of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, 46-year -old Shah on Saturday resigned as Minister of State for Home.
Modi said Shah was “innocent” and a law-abiding citizen and charged that a pick-and-choose approach was being pursued against Gujarat.
Modi said CBI was being used as a political weapon to settle political scores.
–Agencies