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Sohrabuddin case: Retired IPS officer OP Mathur appears before CBI

Mathur, who is now in-charge of Gujarat government's Rasksha Shakti University, is being questioned at the CBI office in Gandhinagar after he was summoned by the agency on July 27.

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Retired IPS officer O P Mathur, who had headed the probe into the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case as chief of Gujarat CID, today appeared before the CBI for questioning.
 
Mathur, who is now in-charge of Gujarat government's Rasksha Shakti University, is being questioned at the CBI office in Gandhinagar after he was summoned by the agency on July 27. He had, however, failed to appear then due to personal reasons.
 
Mathur was the head of state CID which investigated the encounter of Sohrabuddin and alleged murder of his wife Kausarbi in November 2005, before the probe was transfered to CBI by the Supreme Court in January this year.
 
CBI sources said they would be able to get valuable inputs from Mathur in connection with the case. He was earlier summoned by CBI in May but his statement was not recorded at that time.
 
The Central probe agency has already recorded the statement of another retired IPS officer GC Raigar, who also headed the state CID when it was probing the fake encounter case. He was called in as a witness.
 
The CBI has also summoned former investigation officer in the case, Geetha Johri who has been asked to appear before the agency by August 10.
 
The Central agency has arrested former Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah on charges of criminal conspiracy, murder, kidnapping and extortion on July 25.
 
CBI after taking over the investigation in the case, has also arrested IPS officer Abhay Chudasama, a key conspirator in the case.
 
It has also recorded statements of Rajneesh Rai who had arrested three IPS officers DG Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandian and Dinesh MN, considered to be main conspirators behind the encounter.
 
IPS officer GL Singhal, presently with Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) has also being questioned. Singhal was Gandinagar SP when the encounter took place.
 
The earlier probe by CID had lead to the arrest of 14 policemen including three IPS officers -- Vanzara, Pandian of Gujarat cadre and Dinesh MN of Rajasthan cadre for staging a fake encounter of Sohrabuddin.
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