Retired cop VL Solanki says he never gave a statement to CID but agency says he did, on October 30, 201.
Retired police officer VL Solanki must be relieved that the Supreme Court has halted all proceedings in the Tulsi Prajapati fake encounter case, in which the state CID has already filed the charge sheet.
The CID has also submitted a ‘statement’ of Solanki with the charge sheet but the retired police inspector alleges the purported statement is a complete fabrication. He says that the state CID never took his statement in the Tulsi case.
Solanki, who was the investigating officer of the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case when it was being investigated by the CID, is thinking of taking legal action against the state agency for fabricating his statement.
The controversial ‘statement’, a copy of which is in DNA’s possession, is attached with the supplementary charge sheet filed by the state CID in the Tulsi case. The document says that it is the statement of Solanki as recorded on October 30, 2010, by an officer of the state CID, Palanpur branch. In the statement, Solanki is reported as telling the CID that during a preliminary enquiry of both the Sohrabuddin and the Tulsi cases, no common link was found between the two encounter incidents.
Sohrabuddin Sheikh was killed by a team of the Gujarat ATS in November 2005, while his friend, Tulsiram Prajapati, who was reportedly a witness to the murder, was killed a year later in 2006.
Solanki was shocked when DNA asked him about the his so-called statement as it seems to contradict the statement he had made before the CBI after it took over the investigation of the Sohrab case. “The statement [attached with the CID charge sheet] is false and fabricated,” the retired police officer said.
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