Rajendra Acharya’s statement corroborates VL Solanki’s claim that IPS officer had tried to derail probe.
It seems the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is all set to nail senior IPS officer Geetha Johri in Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
The CBI has got corroborative evidence suggesting that Johri had tried to derail the probe when she was heading it in the state CID.
In a supplementary charge sheet filed in the court of CBI judge AY Dave on Friday, the central probe agency has said that Johri — when she was probing the case .in her capacity as IG (CID-Crime) under the direct supervision of the Supreme Court — was either under pressure of the state government or taking instructions from minister of state for home Amit Shah.
The CBI has included the statement of Johri’s the then personal assistant Rajendra Acharya who corroborated former inspector VL Solanki’s claim that Johri had instructed Solanki to drop the names of certain police officers from the Sohrabuddin case.
“Inspector VL Solanki (retired), investigation officer of the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case, revealed that Geetha Johri conveyed to him the instructions of Amit Shah to change the case papers so that the names of police officers DG Vanzara, RK Pandiyan and others could be removed. Solanki refused to obey these instructions of Amit Shah as conveyed by Geetha Johri.
This has been corroborated by Rajendra Acharya, PA of Johri, who was present in the meeting,” said the CBI in the supplementary charge sheet.
The CBI has so far arrested Amit Shah, police officer Abhay Chudasama and ‘Arham’ farmhouse owner Rajesh Jirawala. Johri, who is now commissioner of police in Rajkot, has been questioned by the CBI twice in the Sohrabuddin case.
In the supplementary charge sheet, the CBI has also mentioned a sequence that establishes how Johri was ignorant about prime witness Tulsi Prajapati. “On December 19, 2006, Solanki met Johri and delivered a letter with a request for permission to go to Udaipur for examining Tulsiram Prajapati and Sylvester, both associates of Sohrabuddin.
They were then lodged in Udaipur jail. But he did not receive any instruction on his request,” said CBI. It further said, “The fact that Solanki met Johri is corroborated by a number of witnesses, including Solanki’s driver and Acharya.”
Prajapati was a witness to the abduction of Sohrabuddin and Kausarbi from Hyderabad. But Johri did not mention his name in the progress report submitted to the Supreme Court. Turn to p14
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