INDIA
The central bureau of investigation (CBI) is reportedly investigating why some key witnesses in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case had recently retracted the statements they had made before the probe agency.
The central bureau of investigation (CBI) is reportedly investigating why some key witnesses in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case had recently retracted the statements they had made before the probe agency. This includes the case of Azam Khan, a key witness in the case, who is reportedly untraceable after retracting his statement.
On Wednesday, while arguing against former minister Amit Shah's bail plea here before special CBI judge GK Upadhyay, the probe agency's lawyer, KTS Tulsi, began by saying that, even from prison, Shah had been influencing witnesses. He gave the example of Azam Khan, a key witness in the case who had recently retracted the statement he had earlier made before the CBI. Tulsi said Khan was in somebody's illegal custody as he was untraceable ever since he submitted an affidavit in court retracting his statement.
The CBI lawyer further said that as Shah's bail petition is pending before the court, witnesses were being threatened to retract their statements. "We are investigating the entire issue of retraction of statements by prime witnesses," Tulsi said.
Sources in the CBI said that after Khan retracted his statements, sleuths of the probe agency had gone to meet Khan's wife and had recorded her statement. In her statement, Khan's wife had allegedly told the CBI that Khan had gone missing after he filed the affidavit in court retracting his statement. However, on Wednesday, Tulsi told the court that Khan was in somebody's
illegal custody.
Tulsi further alleged that tampering of evidence and intimidation of witnesses in the case was still going on at the behest of Shah and other accused in the case who were in jail. The CBI counsel alleged that Shah and the other accused were issuing instructions even from jail.
"The combination of senior politicians and senior police officials is a deadly cocktail," Tulsi said. He also told the court that the CBI had evidence to prove that the witnesses were threatened to retract their earlier statements and give fresh statements against the probe agency.
On September 23, Khan had filed an affidavit in the special CBI court in which he retracted his earlier statement and had alleged that the CBI had threatened him to give that statement.
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