Ahmedabad, July 30: An IPS officer is among seven policemen who were charged with criminal conspiracy, murder and kidnapping today in the encounter killing case involving Tulsiram Prajapati, a key witness in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter.
Vipul Agarwal, who was the Superintendent of Police of Banaskantha district when the encounter took place in 2006, was named in the 1,000-page chargesheet filed by Gujarat CID in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate S S Joshi in Banaskantha, about 160 km from here.
All the seven policemen who have since been arrested, have been booked for murder, criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, destruction of evidence and forgery, a CID official said, adding they were also charged under the Arms Act and the Bombay Police Act.
–Agencies