Shah was summoned by the agency on Saturday and told to remain present for questioning on Tuesday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned Gujarat’s former minister of state for home, Amit Shah today for questioning in the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case.
Shah was summoned by the agency on Saturday and told to remain present for questioning on Tuesday. IPS officers Geetha Johri, GL Singhal and retired IPS officers PC Pande, OP Mathur along with Dy SP RK Patel have also been summoned.
If Shah turns up for interrogation today, it is suspected he might be arrested again by the CBI. In 2010, Shah ignored repeated summons served by CBI for interrogating him in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. After ‘disappearing’ for a few days, he then surrendered himself.
Early in 2011, Shah was granted conditional bail, wherein he was asked by the Supreme Court not to enter Gujarat as the CBI alleged he may tamper with evidence or intimidate the witnesses.
It may however be noted that Shah is not mentioned as an accused in the FIR registered by CBI in the Tulsiram Prajapati case, but may be included as an accused after his questioning and substantiating evidences. (With agencies)
On Tuesday, CBI is expected to confront the BJP leader with telephone records about him being allegedly in touch with suspended IPS officers like Vipul Agarwal and DG Vanzara when Prajapati was killed. Both the officers are currently behind bars. Agarwal was posted as district superintendent of police of Banaskantha then.
Johri was posted in CID (crime), when the investigating officer of Sohrabuddin fake encounter case VL Solanki sought to question Tulsi Prajapati before Tulsi was killed in the encounter. GL Singhal will be further questioned for kidnapping of the witnesses while Pande and Mathur will are likely to be questioned to unravel Tulsi related facts. Patel, who was the last investigating officer, will also be questioned in this connection.
Earlier Shah's close aides, Yashpal Chudasama and Ajay Patel were questioned by CBI in the last week of December in this case. They are also accused in Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. Prajapati, a close aide of Sohrabuddin Shaikh was killed in an alleged shoot-out near Chapri village in Banaskantha district on December 28, 2006 and the CBI was handed over the investigation in April 2011 by the Supreme Court.
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