The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday issued summons to two senior Gujarat Government Ministers Pradeepsinh Jadeja and Bhupendrasinh Chudasama for questioning in connection with the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case of 2004.
According to reports, the CBI also issued summons to Advocate General Kamal Trivedi for questioning in the case.
The three are under CBI scanner for trying to exercising tactics to save the tainted Gujarat government officers in the fake encounter case.
Accused and suspended IPS officer GL Singhal had on June 9 produced a pen drive containing discussions among three ministers of the Modi government at a meeting held at the office of the advocate-general allegedly for saving Gujarat police officers from CBI, which was probing the case following high court order.
According to the document, Singhal claimed that the audio contained the recorded conversation of a meeting held on November 2011 to chalk out the strategy to obstruct the investigation of the fake encounter case.
The said meeting was held in a private chamber of the A-G.
Singhal also gave names of the persons who took part in the meeting. They were A-G Kamal Trivedi, CM’s secretary GC Murmu, IG (Gandhingar Range) AK Sharma, then Minister of State for Home Praful Patel, then Minister of State for Law Pradeepsinh Jadeja, former minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, accused officer Tarun Barot and Singhal’s friend and advocate Rohit Verma.
The probe agency had already mentioned in its status report about the alleged hindrance created by the government to derail the probe.