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Keep out of Gujarat till November 29, Supreme Court tells Amit Shah

Amit Shah was ordered to stay our of Gujarat after he sought more time to respond on CBI's plea for his bail cancellation in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.

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Beleaguered former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah was today ordered by the Supreme Court to remain out of Gujarat till November 29 after he sought more time to respond on CBI's plea for his bail cancellation in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.

A Bench of Justices Aftab Alam and R M Lodha while asking Shah to stay out of Gujarat granted him time till November 20 to file his response. They asked the CBI to file its rejoinder to the response by November 25 and posted the matter for further hearing to November 29.

The Bench passed the direction after senior counsel U U Lalit and counsel Bina Madhavan made an "impromptu mentioning" urging the court to grant additional time to file his response.

The apex court earlier, during a special hearing in the residence of Justice Alam on October 30, 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.

It had asked Shah to file his response by November 12 and had originally listed the matter for further hearing to November 15.

The CBI had approached the apex court on October 29 seeking cancellation of bail to Shah, granted by the Gujarat High Court a day earlier.

The CBI had sought urgent hearing of its plea, prompting the apex court's registry to arrange for the hearing on Justice Alam's residence during Dussehra vacations.

The court had on  October 30 directed Shah to leave Gujarat by the next morning, ordering him to stay out of the state till its further orders.

The special Bench had ordered Shah to leave the state after senior advocate K T S Tulsi, appearing for CBI, had expressed the apprehension before the court that Shah was an influential person and was likely to influence witnesses in the case.

The 46-year-old Shah, a close aide of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, had been granted bail by the Gujarat High Court three months after his arrest for his alleged  role in the Sohrabuddin case.

Shah had to quit the Modi government in July this year after being slapped with charges of murder and kidnapping in the fake encounter killing of the alleged gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauser Bi in 2005. 

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