New Delhi, January 10: CBI is today questioning former Gujarat
minister Amit Shah, considered a close aide of Chief Minister
Narendra Modi, in connection with the alleged fake encounter of
Tulsiram Prajapati in 2006.
Prajapati was said to be a key witness in the killing of
Sohrabuddin Sheikh, an alleged gangster, and his wife Kausarbi.
Mr Shah was being questioned at the CBI headquarters here in
connection with the Tulsiram Prajapati case, sources from the probe
agency said.
He is out on bail after being arrested in the Sohrabuddin case.
He has been asked by the Supreme Court not to enter Gujarat as the
probe agency alleged that he may tamper with the evidence or
intimidate the witnesses.
Prajapati was killed in an alleged shoot out in Banaskantha
district on December 28, 2006.
The CBI took over the case in April last year on the directions
from the Supreme Court and registered a case against police
officials of Gujarat, Rajasthan and others.
The FIR was registered following the apex court’s directions on
a writ petition filed by Narmada Bai, Prajapati’s mother.
His mother had alleged that he was killed in a fake enounter by
the Gujarat police as he was the key eyewitness in the 2005 killing
of Sohrabuddin and Kausarbi.
It was alleged that a team of Gujarat police had abducted
Tulsiram along with Sohrabuddin and Kausarbi from a bus in
Hyderabad.
–Agencies