Sohrabuddin case: CBI grills former CID chief for nine hours
PTI | 10:08 PM,Aug 05,2010Ahmedabad, Aug 5 (PTI) Retired IPS officer O P Mathur, who had headed the probe into the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case as chief of Gujarat CID, was today grilled by CBI for nearly nine hours.Mathur, now in-charge of the state-run Rasksha Shakti University, appeared before CBI at its office at Block 11 of Old Secretariat campus in Gandhinagar after being summoned by the agency.According to sources in the CBI, investigation in the case was on and Mathur, if required, will be called again.Mathur, however, declined to comment, when asked about the matter after he came out from the CBI office.The CBI has also summoned former investigation officer in the case Geetha Johri, and ex-DGP P C Pandey who have been asked to appear before the agency by August 10 and 11.Mathur was the head of state CID which investigated the encounter of Sohrabuddin and the murder of his wife Kausar Bi in November 2005, before the probe was transfered to CBI by the Supreme Court in January.He was earlier summoned by CBI in May but his statement was not recorded at that time.The CBI has already recorded the statement of another retired IPS officer G C Raigar, who had also headed the state CID when it was probing the fake encounter case. He was called in as a witness.On July 25, the central agency has arrested former Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah on charges of criminal conspiracy, murder, kidnapping and extortion. After taking over the investigation in the case, CBI 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 D G Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandian and Dinesh M N, alleged to be the conspirators behind the encounter. IPS officer G L Singhal, now with Gujarat Anti- Terrorist Squad (ATS) has also being questioned. Singhal was Gandhinagar SP when the encounter took place. The earlier probe by CID had lead to the arrest of 14 policemen including Vanzara, Pandian of Gujarat cadre and Dinesh M N of Rajasthan cadre.
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