The CBI had earlier approached the apex court on October 29, 2010 to cancel the bail of Shah alleging that he may influence or threaten witnesses and complainant in the case.
Former junior home minister Amit Shah got some more relief as a bench of the Supreme Court has asked him to file his reply in connection to the application filed by the CBI to cancel his bail. SC gave Shah time till November 29, 2010 to file his reply in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.
The CBI had earlier approached the apex court on October 29, 2010 to cancel the bail of Shah alleging that he may influence or threaten witnesses and complainant in the case. CBI had also submitted an affidavit in the case before few days.
Sources close to the development said that despite the additional relief to Shah, the condition that Shah stay out of Gujarat is still applicable and so he cannot enter the state.
A bench of Justices Aftab Alam and RM Lodha granted Shah two additional weeks to file his reply after his lawyers UU Lalit and Bina Madhavan urged the court to extend the time for filing a response.
Earlier, during a special hearing on October 30, the apex court had asked Shah to move out of Gujarat till further orders and had sought his response on the CBI's plea for cancelling his bail.
The bench, which also comprised Justice RM Lodha, had on October 30 directed Shah to leave Gujarat the next morning, ordering him to stay out of the state till its further order. It had also asked Shah to file his reply by November 12, while posting the matter for next hearing on November 15.
The special bench had ordered Shah to leave the state after senior advocate KTS Tulsi, appearing for the CBI, had expressed apprehension that Shah was an influential person and was likely to influence witnesses in the case. Shah, 46, a close aide of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, was granted bail by the Gujarat high court three months after his arrest for his alleged role in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter.
Shah had to quit the Modi government in July this year after he was charged with murder and kidnapping in connection with the encounter in which gangster, Sohrabuddin Sheikh, and his wife, Kauser Bi, were killed in 2005.
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