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Evidence
linking me to Sohrabuddin killing fake: Amit Shah
Tuesday July 26, 2011 08:42:46 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Former
Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah Tuesday said the
Central Bureau of Investigation's case linking him to the 2005
Sohrabuddin Sheikh shootout was based on fake evidence, and urged
the Supreme Court to take note of it.
The apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice R.M. Lodha
was told this by Shah's senior counsel Ram Jethmalani, who sought
to bring on record the transcript of a news channel's sting
operation related to the case.
The sting operation showed that Sohrabuddin's brother Nayimuddin
allegedly said that he did not name Amit Shah in his statement
before the investigating agency.
"In Amit Shah's matter, no one has sought my help," Nayimuddin
reportedly said in the sting operation by the news channel.
As Jethmalani pressed for taking the transcript and the
accompanying affidavit on record, the court said, "There is
already so much of material on record. Why are you burdening it
further with another document?"
While saying that for the time being it would reserve its order on
the plea to take the document on record, the court wondered as to
what extent it could rely on a sting operation's transcript.
Justice Lodha said: "This matter is pending for a long time. We
are concerned with the bail matter. This man (Amit shah) is not
allowed to enter the state. There is no end to evidence. Evidence
will keep on cropping (up)."
Jethmalani said that what had surfaced in the sting operation, if
it was true, then the entire charge sheet against the former
Gujarat minister would have to go.
The court was hearing of an appeal by the investigating agency
challenging the grant of bail to the former minister by the
Gujarat High court and seeking transfer of his trial outside the
state.
On Oct 29, 2010, the Gujarat High Court granted him bail but the
very next day the CBI moved the apex court seeking the
cancellation of bail.
The apex court while keeping the CBI plea pending directed Shah to
stay away from Gujarat.
The CBI in its appeal said that Shah and police officer Abhay
Chudasama "while in judicial custody conspired with some Gujarat
police officers to destroy crucial evidence and to shield the
accused from law".
The court asked CBI's senior counsel K.T.S. Tulsi to withdraw
himself from the case as he appeared for the Gujarat government in
the initial stages.
While declining the plea of former solicitor general Gopal
Subramanium to withdraw from the case as amicus curiae, the court
asked him to continue to assist it.
The case would be heard next Aug 17.
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