Gandhinagar, July 22: Gujarat’s junior Home Minister Amit Shah, who is close to Chief Minister Narendra Modi, was today summoned by the CBI in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case but he failed to appear and has been asked to show up tomorrow for questioning.
It is for the first time that a state minister has been summoned in connection with the alleged fake encounter by Gujarat Police near Ahmedabad in which Sohrabuddin, an alleged gangster, was killed in November 2005.
The CBI issued a second summons to the minister of state for home to appear before it at the agency’s office tomorrow after he did not show up within the stipulated time of 1 PM today. The Minister has again been given time till 1 PM tomorrow. Modi holds the Home portfolio.
–PTI