Witness
in Prajapati encounter case injured in attack
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 11:09:26 AM,
IANS
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Jaipur:
Azam Khan, who had given evidence in the killing of Tulsiram
Prajapati - an eyewitness to the alleged staged killing of
Sohrabuddin Sheikh - was injured after he was shot at by unknown
assailants in Rajasthan's Udaipur city Tuesday, police said. He
has been hospitalised and his condition is stable.
"Unknown assailants on motorcycles shot at Khan at Udaysagar area
at around 7 p.m. Khan sustained injuries in his right palm. He has
been hospitalised and his condition is stable," Udaipur's
Superintendent of Police Sanjib Kumar Narzari told IANS over the
phone.
The assailants fled after the attack, he said. Udaysagar is about
10 km from the city.
Narzari said police had set up barricades and checkposts in an
around Udaipur to nab the assailants. However, no arrests had been
made yet.
Prajapati was killed in an alleged staged shoot-out in Gujarat's
Banaskantha district Dec 28, 2006 - over a year after Sohrabuddin
was killed on the outskirts of Ahmedabad Nov 26, 2005.
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