In a boost to the Central Bureau of Investigation, N K Amin, an accused police officer in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, on Monday filed an application in a lower court to become an approver. He has also sought pardon in the case.
The officer filed the application under Section 306 of the CrPC for being considered as an approver and for grant of pardon in the 2007 case. Amin filed another application seeking transfer from the prison, saying he faced a threat to his life in Sabarmati jail where he is currently lodged with the other accused in the case.
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate A I Raval issued a notice to the CBI and will hear the matter on Tuesday.
Amin was assistant commissioner of police, city crime branch, before being arrested in 2007, on a statement of a witness involved in the operation of abducting Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausar bi from Andhra Pradesh. Amin's application comes just a day after the CBI arrested former Gujarat minister Amit Shah in the case.
An advocate representing Amin, Rajesh Modi said there was a threat to his client's life from the co-accused in the case.
"There is a threat to Amin's life from other accused as all are lodged together in the Sabarmati Central jail in Ahmedabad. So we have decided to move an application ftransfer of Amin from Sabarmati jail," Modi said.
Apart from him, the police have arrested four IPS officers and other lower-ranked officers in the case, charging them with criminal conspiracy, murder, kidnapping and extortion.
