Tulsi Prajapati encounter: CBI questions Yashpal Chudasama, Ajay Patel

Aides of former Minister of State for Home Amit Shah, -Yashpal Chudasama and Ajay Patel-were Saturday questioned by CBI in connection with Tulsi Prajapati encounter case, officials sources said.

Chudasama and Patel were questioned for about four hours on Saturday in connection with the Tulsi Prajapati case, CBI officials said.

Prajapati, a close aide of alleged gangster Sohrabuddin, was killed in an encounter near Chapri village of Ambaji in Banaskantha district on December 28, 2006.

The Supreme Court had handed over the investigation of the Prajapati case to CBI.

CBI has shown Chudasama and Patel, along with Shah, as accused in the charge sheet they filed in the Soharabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. They have been accused of trying to influence witness and derail CBI probe in the Sheikh encounter case.

However, CBI could not arrest them as they obtained anticipatory bail from the Gujarat high court. The CBI has challenged their anticipatory bail in the Supreme Court and the case is going on.

CBI sources said, as both the encounters -Sheikh and Prajapati- are linked, they had called both the aides of Shah for questioning.

Shah was arrested by CBI in the Sheikh encounter case but he is now out on bail. CBI's appeal against bail given to him in Gujarat high court is pending with the Supreme Court.