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Sohrabuddin killing: Third CBI witness turns hostile
Thursday, September 23, 2010 09:58:11 PM,
IANS
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Gandhinagar:
Azam Khan, a key witness in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged
shootout, Thursday retracted from a statement given to the Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He is the third witness to do so.
Khan, who was shot at in Rajasthan Sep 14, submitted an affidavit
in the designated CBI court in Ahmedabad that his statement to the
premier investigating agency was taken under duress.
He is the third CBI witness to turn hostile. Earlier, Noor
Ghoghari and Sohrabuddin Sheikh's brother Nayimuddin contradicted
their statements given to the CBI.
In his affidavit submitted in person to CBI court judge A.Y. Dave,
Khan said that he was made to give the statement under threat. "I
have stayed with Sohrabuddin and his associate Tulsi Prajapati but
they never said anything to me."
"I was threatened by the CBI and this statement was taken and it
was never shown to me nor was I allowed to read it. I have never
met Abhay Chudasama (former deputy commissioner of police,
Ahmedabad, and an accused in the case) in my life," said the
affidavit.
"While taking (my) statement, a CBI officer was heard telling a
senior CBI officer that he has given the same statement that Arjun
Modvadia had told us," said Khan.
Modvadia is a former Congress legislature party leader of Gujarat
assembly.
Khan said in his affidavit that the CBI threatened to put him
behind bars for a lifetime by implicating him in the Hamid Lala
murder case of Rajasthan's Udaipur and a firing case of Ahmedabad
if he did not do what he was told.
"I was made to sign on twenty blank papers. I have never claimed
that there was any threat to my life. I was forced to say this
before a TV channel by the CBI," he said.
Khan was shot by two motorcycle-borne people near Udai Sagar Lake
in Udaipur Sep 14. He received bullet injuries in his left arm.
Over a dozen policemen, including Indian Police Service officers,
have been arrested for the 2005 killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh.
Among those behind bars are former Gujarat minister of state for
home Amit Shah and Chudasama.
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