Click to play videoUjjain: The Centre says it favours a CBI probe into the fake encounter case where two senior Gujarat police officers have been accused.
But far from the politics of it all, victim Sohrabuddin' Sheikh’s family is happy that justice has finally being delivered.
At the Sohrabuddin household at Ujjain's Jhirnya village in Madhya Pradesh, celebration is palpable. "We are happy with the judgement. This is just the beginning. We will get justice," says Sohrabuddin’s brother Naimuddin.
Sohrabuddin was killed in an encounter faked by Gujarat and Rajasthan police in 2005 and his wife Kausar is still missing. The family alleges she too has been killed.
"I am satisfied with the court's judgement. I'm sure those responsible for killing my son and daughter-in-law will be punished," says Sohrabuddin’s mother Jebunisa.
The Gujarat ATS had claimed Sohrabuddin was an LeT operative, who was planning to kill state Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
In 1994 the Madhya Pradesh police acting on an intelligence bureau tip-off recovered more than 28 AK-56 rifles from a well near Sohrabuddin's house. It was one of the departement’s biggest arms hauls.
After the operation, Sohrabuddin was arrested by the CBI but later exonerated due to lack of evidence.
But Sohrabuddin's is not the only such case. Tulsi Prajapati, a resident of Ujjain and a close associate of Sohrabuddin was also killed in an encounter on December last year.
The police say Prajapati, a proclaimed offender, was killed while allegedly fleeing Rajasthan police's custody, while being taken from Ahmedabad to Udaipur.
“My son was killed by the police,” says Prajapati’s mother Narmada.
As evidence she has a letter which Prajapati wrote from a jail in Ahmedabad. As more skeletons tumble out of the closet, the investigating agencies have their hands full for at least some time to come.
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