NEW DELHI: BJP president Amit Shah and three IPS police officers among main conspirators in the alleged fake encounters of Sohrabuddin Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati case, chief investigating officer (CIO) told a special CBI court on Wednesday.
Sandeep Tamgadge, the chief investigating officer (CIO) during his cross-examination in the court of Special Judge SJ Sharma claimed that Amit Shah, then Minister of State for Home in Gujarat, D G Vanzara, the then Deputy Inspector-General Gujarat Police, Rajkumar Pandian (SP, Intelligence Bureau) and M N Dinesh (IPS officer, Rajasthan Police) were the principal conspirators of the fake encounter.
Mr Tamghare during the ongoing trial told a special CBI court that he was calling them conspirators because the probe agency during the investigation found evidence against them.
“It is not true that I am calling these four people conspirators without any evidence,” said Tamgadge, then Superintendent of Police (CBI). He admitted that there was no documentary evidence in the supplementary chargesheet to support his claim.
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Shah and the police officers have been discharged by the trial court in the case.
Sohrabuddin Shaikh, whom the Gujarat Police claimed was a terrorist, along with his wife Kauser Bi was killed in an alleged fake encounter by the Gujarat ATS in November 2005.
Tulsiram Prajapati, an aide of Shaikh was allegedly killed by Gujarat and Rajasthan police at Chapri in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district in December 2006.