Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Gujarat government has suspended IPS officers D G Vanzara and Rajkumar Pandian who allegedly murdered a businessman in 2005 in a fake encounter and later killed his wife.
Orders to suspend Vanzara, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Border Range, and Pandian, Superintendent of Police, Intelligence, were issued on Saturday.
Vanzara, Pandian and a Dineshkumar M N, an IPS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, were arrested on April 24 in connection with the November 2005 murders of Soharabbudin Sheikh and Kauser Bi.
According to rules, policemen who spend 48 hours in custody after their arrest stand suspended.
A court in Ahmedabad on Saturday extended the police remand of the three officers till May 8. Vanzara told reporters outside court that charges against him were "interpolation and concocted".
The Gujarat police Crime Investigation Department (CID), which is probing Sheikh and Kauser Bi’s deaths, has asked for the court’s permission to conduct narco-analysis tests on the officers. The plea will be heard on May 8.
Sources in the Gujarat police tell CNN-IBN that a team led by Geeta Johri, who is Deputy Inspector General of the CID, is excavating Vanzara’s farmhouse in Ilol village in Sabarkantha district.
The CID team suspects that Kausar Bi was buried in the farmhouse after being murdered and burnt in a bungalow Vanzara owns in the village.
Police gunned down Sheikh on November 26, 2005 on the outskirts of Ahmedabad and alleged that he was a Lashker-e-Taiba terrorist. Kauser Bi was murdered two days later, the CID has told the Supreme Court.
Vanzara on Saturday said he still stands by his statement that Sheikh was a terrorist.
The Supreme Court ordered a probe into Sheikh’s death on his brother’s appeal.
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