New Delhi, March 09: Former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah today told the Supreme Court that the Centre had hatched a conspiracy with CBI to target Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his government in false encounter cases.
Appearing before a bench of justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan, senior counsel Ram Jethmalani said the central government was targetting Modi due to political reasons and Shah was only a medium through which it could achieve it.
“It is just an illusion to say that CBI is a premier investigating agency. It was initally conceived as an anti-corruption agency but I regret to say that there is conclusive evidence to prove that the agency is subordinate to the political party in power.
“There is evidence to prove that there is a conspiracy between CBI and the central government to target a democratically-elected government that is a thorn to it.
—-PTI