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Ahmedabad:
Sohrabuddin Sheikh was killed in a "cold blooded manner" during a
"stage managed encounter" carried out by officials of Gujarat and
Rajasthan Police in November 2005, CBI has said in a chargesheet
filed in court.
"Investigations revealed that the
police officials of Gujarat ATS and Rajasthan Special Task Force (STF)
had stage managed the encounter of Sohrabuddin in Ahmedabad," it
said.
"Sohrabuddin was taken from Arham Farm, brought to the encounter
site and killed in a cold blooded manner. The ballistic expert
opined that the bullet recovered from the body of Sohrabuddin was
fired from the service revolver of Inspector N H Dabhi (one of the
accused).
"According to the chargesheet filed on July 23 in a Special Court
here, police had then claimed Sohrabuddin came to Ahmedabad, by a
train from Surat, to kill a prominent political leader in the state.
In accordance with the plot, prime accused in the case, D G Vanzara,
Dinesh M N and Rajkumar Pandiyan (all IPS officers), along with
other accused-policemen formed a team and reached near Vishala
Circle in Ahmedabad, the agency said.
The accused-policemen had shown that Sohrabuddin came on a
motorcycle and when stopped by the police fired at them. He was
killed in retaliatory firing by the police.
CBI probe, however, revealed the motorcycle was planted by ATS to
present a fake encounter as genuine. The chargesheet further said
Kausarbi, wife of Sohrabuddin, was an eyewitness to the abduction of
her husband.
In eyes of the Gujarat and Rajasthan police officials, she was a
"dangerous witness". "She was eliminated by the accused persons and
her body burnt in village Illol (native village of Vanzara).
" Investigation into the role of former police officer N K Amin, one
of the accused who has turned approver, revealed that though he was
not posted with ATS, he was in constant touch with Vanzara, Pandiyan
and Amit Shah, then Gujarat Minister of State for Home who is now an
accused. "He (Amin) made/received as many as 25 calls from/to Shah
between November 21, 2005 and November 30, 2005," it said.
The CBI probe further disclosed that in the early November 2005, one
Tulsiram Prajapati was contacted by accused Abhay Chudasama (former
DCP city Crime Branch) and produced before Vanzara, who asked him to
make Sohrabuddin available before him as there was "a lot of
political pressure". Prajapati, killed in a police "encounter" in
December 2006, was assured that (his friend) Sohrabuddin would get a
safe passage and at the most would be put in jail for 3-4 months.
No physical harm would be done to Sohrabuddin, it said. "Having got
the assurance from Vanzara, Prajapati helped Chudasama in tracking
Sohrabuddin.
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