CBI ignoring Andhra Pradesh angle in Sohrabuddin case: BJP

BJP today accused the CBI of working in a partisan manner by targeting Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, where it has governments, and ignoring the Andhra Pradesh angle in the Sohrabuddin case as the Congress is in power in that state.

"Sohrabuddin Shaikh was a terrorist from whose premises in Indore nearly 300 AK-47s were recovered. He used to operate an inter-state gang.

"Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat are under CBI radar but the Andhra Pradesh angle (in the fake encounter case) is not being investigated at all as Congress is in power there," BJP chief spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad told PTI.

The Rajya Sabha MP was confident that Gujarat minister Amit Shah, arrested today by CBI in the case, would come out clean, claiming that the case against him was weak.

"Amit Shah has already resigned and will go through the process of law. But BJP's allegation of gross misuse of CBI by the government is too well-known," Prasad said.

"The entire case against Shah is based upon sweeping investigations by CBI without any legally sustainable evidence. This motivated investigation would boomerang on the Congress," Prasad said.

The CBI case against Shah is based on phone intercepts, which is not admissible as evidence in a court of law, BJP sources claimed.

Among the senior policemen arrested in the case include IPS officers from Gujarat, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh cadre.