Fake encounters: SC relief for Amit Shah

April 08, 2013 11:07

Delivering its verdict, the Supreme Court on Monday relieved former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah in connection with killings of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati in alleged fake encounters.

The Supreme Court in its verdict said that the killing of Tulsiram Prajapati was a part of a single conspiracy, and the also accepted Shah's contention that there be a single trial. Shah, who is also believed to be a close aide of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, has accused the central probe agency of acting with a "malafide design" to seek his police custody again by filing a separate chargesheet in the Prajapati case.

Shah had earlier told the Supreme Court that both killings were "inter-connected" and an "integral part of the conspiracy hatched as a part of the same transaction."

The CBI, however, took a contrary stand in its charge sheet in the Prajapati case, filed in November. The probe agency claims that both case conspiracies were different. -- Zee News

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