CBI grills Amit Shah for 8 hrs in Tulsi case

The CBI team investigating the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case questioned former Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah for several hours on Tuesday. He was questioned by DySP in the CBI, Binay Kumar, at the agency’s office in Delhi.

“He was questioned for about eight hours in connection with the Tulsiram Prajapati encounter. If required, he will be called for questioning again. However, his arrest is unlikely at this point of time,’” said a senior CBI official on the condition of anonymity.
Prajapati, a close aide of the slain gangster, Sohrabuddin Sheikh and a witness to his killing in a fake encounter, was shot dead in another fake encounter near Chapri village of Banaskantha district in December 2006.

During the interrogation on Tuesday, the CBI confronted Shah with telephone records allegedly showing him in touch with the accused police officers during the encounter. The police officers he was allegedly in touch with include the then DIG, border range, DG Vanzara, who is currently in jail as an accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.