Gandhinagar, June 15: An interim bail plea of Abhay Chudasama, former deputy commissioner of Ahmedabad police, was rejected by a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court. He was arrested in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shooting case in April and had sought 10 weeks’ interim bail for hip replacement surgery at a private hospital.
Based on the investigation conducted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which revealed that DCP Abhay Chudasama had engineered the abduction of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauser bi in collusion with other conspirators/accused persons en route to Maharasthra from Andhra Pradesh, the special court of judge VB Barot sent the DCP to police custody .
Special CBI Judge G.K. Upadhayay ruled that the purpose of law would be better served if he is operated upon at the government civil hospital.
The court ruled that in case he was ready to get his operation done at the government hospital, a fresh petition will have to be filed.
Chudasama’s lawyer Rohit Verma said that they would move in the matter after studying the court ruling.
Chudasama had sought interim bail of 10 weeks — six weeks for post-surgery care and four weeks for physiotherapy.
However, the CBI said he should be granted interim bail for only six weeks for post-surgery care.
It said physiotherapy facilities at the government hospital could be availed by him.
The CBI said during his hospitalization he should not be allowed to meet anyone except his family.
The investigating agency said Chudasama has been hindering investigations and there was evidence to prove it.
CBI counsel LD Tiwary , along with K Sudhakaran, the deputy legal advisor (Mumbai), pleaded before the court: “Chudasama played a key role not only in the conspiracy for commission of abduction, murder and extortion, but also in causing disappearance of evidence and giving false information to screen offenders.”
Moreover, the investigating agency revealed that Chudasama had offered Rs 50lakhs to the brother of Sohrabuddin for withdrawing the petition in the Supreme Court — and threatened him with dire consequences if he did not do so.
The CBI counsels, who sought 14 days remand of Chudasama, pleaded that since the registration of the case by CBI he has been influencing witnesses either by alluring them with bribes or threatening them with dire consequences.
—Agencies