Prajapati encounter case: Amit Shah likely to appear before CBI court

Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi’s close aide Amit Shah is likely to appear before a special CBI court in Mumbai on Friday in connection with the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case. [caption id=“attachment_1538729” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Amit Shah. Reuters[/caption] On 9 May, the first day of hearing, special judge JT Utpat issued summons to the accused, seeking their presence on 23 May. The case had been transferred from Gujarat to a Mumbai court. The CBI filed a chargesheet in the case last September against Shah, Gujarat’s former home minister of state, and 18 others, including several police officers. According to CBI, gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauser Bi were abducted by Gujarat’s Anti-Terrorism Squad from Hyderabad and killed in a fake encounter near Gandhinagar in November 2005. Following which, Tulsiram Prajapati, a key eye-witness to the encounter, was killed by police at Chapri village in Banaskantha district of Gujarat in December 2006, it says in its chargesheet. According to CBI, Shah, as minister of state, was involved in the conspiracy which led to the fake encounters. With inputs from PTI