A special CBI court on Monday dropped charges against Gujarat Additional Director General of Police Geeta Johri in fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsi Prajapati.
Johri was then Inspector-General of Police (CID) at the time of the incident.
The court had last month rejected discharge application of former Gujarat DSP ML Parmar who was seeking
Sohrabuddin, a gangster who Gujarat police claimed had links with the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba, and his wife Kausar Bi were allegedly abducted by Gujarat ATS from Hyderabad on their way to Sangli in Maharashtra in 2005.
He was killed in a fake encounter near Gandhinagar in November 2005. His wife disappeared and was believed to have been killed too.
Tulsiram, Sheikh’s aide and eyewitness to the fake encounter, was killed allegedly by Gujarat police at Chapri village in Banaskantha district in December 2006.
The Sohrabuddin case was transferred to Mumbai in September 2012 at CBI’s request for a fair trial. In 2013, the Supreme Court clubbed the Prajapati case with it.
–PTI