New Delhi, August 02: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought the police custody of former Gujarat minister Amit Shah in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. The probe agency on Friday concluded its three-day grilling of Amit Shah during which the former Gujarat minister did not give
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satisfactory replies to questions put to him despite an assurance by his lawyer that he would cooperate in the probe.
Sources in the CBI said a four-member team of the investigating agency quizzed Shah for the third consecutive day for nearly four hours inside the Sabarmati central jail, where he has been lodged since his arrest on July 25.
They said like the previous two days, the BJP leader did not cooperate in the investigation into the 2005 episode.
The special CBI court had earlier allowed questioning of the former minister of state for home from July 28 to 30.
The nearly five-year-old case also involves killing of Sheikh’s wife Kausar Bi allegedly by Gujarat Police.
Shah has been booked by CBI for murder, kidnapping, destruction of evidence and criminal conspiracy, among other charges. The charge sheet in the case was filed on July 23.
According to the charge sheet, police officials of Gujarat ATS and Rajasthan Special Task Force had stage managed the encounter of Sheikh, a suspected gangster, near Ahmedabad.
Shah had entrusted the job of eliminating Sheikh to three senior IPS officers – DG Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandiyan and Abhay Chudasama, the CBI document said.
——-Agencies