A day before Anil Bheda, the sole eye-witness in the encounter case went missing, an unidentified caller had asked him to leave the house and go to one "PS"
A day before Anil Bheda, the sole eye-witness in the Lakhan Bhaiya alias Ramnarayan Gupta encounter case went missing, an unidentified caller had asked him to leave the house and go to one "PS"
Former `encounter specialist' police officer Pradeep Sharma is a key accused in Gupta case, which was registered following judicial magistrate's findings that the encounter in 2006 was fake.
The tapes of the conversation between Bheda and the caller are with Special Investigating Team (SIT) probing the encounter case.
Bheda, the sole eye-witness to the allegedly fake encounter, has been missing since March 13 this year, but before that, he had received a call from an unidentified caller asking him to leave the house for three to four days. At one point the caller also said that if he went to "PS", it would be better for him in the long run.
The caller, who called Bheda on March 12 at around 8.40pm, said "Sirf tin din ke liye aap...please please.. chale jao yahan se" (please go somewhere else for three days).
"You don't have trouble from the people who are inside (jail), nor from SIT, they are different people," the caller said.
"If they do anything to you then his (Sharma's) name will come up...this is a fight between two `companies'," the caller, speaking in Hindi, added.
Bheda got the first call from this caller at 11:44am on March 11. However, he told the caller that he was not Bheda; and Bheda had gone to his native place. The caller said that to deceive/trap ("fasane ke liye") him, the people of Chotta Rajan's group wanted to kill him. The caller even named Rajan's aide, DK Rao, in this regard.
On March 12, when second call came, Bheda told the caller that he himself had spoken on the previous day.
Bheda's wife has moved the Bombay high court with a habeas corpus petition, seeking to know whereabouts of her husband.
At the last hearing, on June 30, neighbouring Navi Mumbai police had told the court that they had found a decomposed body, which they suspected to be Bheda's, but it was to be confirmed.
The next hearing of the case is scheduled for tomorrow.
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