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Let CBI chief probe Sohrabuddin killing, apex court told
Wednesday December 07, 2011 09:48:40 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Supreme
Court was told Wednesday that the CBI chief should be made
personally accountable to it for taking the probe into the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shootout killing in Gujarat to its
logical conclusion.
Court-appointed lawyer Gopal Subramanium said this during a
hearing on a petition seeking the recall of the Jan 12, 2010,
judgment transferring the probe to the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI).
He asked the court to direct that "nobody from any quarter or
government will interfere in the investigation", adding that
"nobody should be permitted to get at the investigation".
The court was told that there were many gaps in the investigation
of the case and the investigating agency should be directed to
address these.
Subramanium told the apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and
Justice R.P. Desai: "Director, CBI, should be made personally
responsible for investigation. He will oversee the investigation
personally and report to the court."
Seeking the reiteration of the apex court directions in the Vineet
Narain case, Subramanium urged the court to direct that no
"government be allowed to intervene in the investigation,
including by those who have co-habitation in some other quarter".
In the Vineet Narain case, the court had sought to insulate the
CBI from political pulls and pressure in its investigation into a
money laundering case, in which 115 top politicians and
bureaucrats allegedly received money from channels that were also
funding insurgent organisations in Kashmir.
The on-going hearing in the apex court also involves a CBI plea
challenging the Gujarat High Court order granting bail to
Sohrabuddin killing accused and former Gujarat minister Amit Shah
and seeking transfer of the trial outside the state.
Referring to the N.N. Vohra Committee report on the
underworld-politician-bureaucrat nexus, Subramaniumm told the
court: "What will happen if there was a subterranean nexus between
the people who commit crime, those who investigate and those who
occupy the (political) office".
Pointing to the gaps in the CBI investigation, he said the probe
agency did not look into the role of Andhra Pradesh Police
personnel in the staged shootout and did not analyse their call
records.
The case would be heard next Dec 13.
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