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Guj: IPS officials in judicial custody
Published on Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:43, Updated on Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 08:21 in India section
Tags: Gujarat, Fake Encounter , New Delhi
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New Delhi: The three IPS officers arrested in the Gujarat fake encounters case have been sent to judicial custody.
D G Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandian and M N Dinesh will now be shifted to the Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad.
The investigating agency told the court that all three were present at the spot where Sohrabuddin was killed, at Narol in November 2005.
Anti-terrorism squad members inspector N H Dabhi and constables Ajay Parmar and Santram Sharma have been sent to police custody till May 15.
The application for narco-analysis tests on the three IPS officers will now be heard on May 25.
However, M N Dinesh's advocate, Arvind Pandya says, "I have submitted an application stating that my client isn't giving his consent for a narco-analysis test. If it is done, it will be without his consent."
The Gujarat Police had arrested the three IPS officials on a charge of murder for their role in the death of Sohrabuddin Sheikh on November 22, 2005.
The police had arrested former director of the Gujarat anti-terrorism squad, D G Vanjara, SP of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), Rajkumar Pandyan and an officer from the Rajasthan ATS, Dinesh Kumar.
The three had claimed that Sheikh was a Lashkar-e-Toiba operative on a mission to kill Narendra Modi.
Sohrabuddin Sheikh's wife, Kauser Bi was also with him at the time of the encounter and was also killed by the policemen. Her body was later burnt and disposed off.
Sohrabuddin was traveling with his wife from Hyderabad to Sangli in an inter-state bus in Maharashtra, when the Gujarat ATS and the Rajasthan STF picked them along with a third man - Tulsiram Prajapati.
Tulsiram Prajapati, too, was killed by the police in a fake encounter. Following a CID probe, the Gujarat government admitted in court that is was a fake encounter.
Meanwhile, evidence has emerged that the powerful marble lobby in Rajasthan had paid off Gujarat anti-terrorism squad's D G Vanjara to dispose of Sheikh, who was allegedly extorting money from marble traders.
Kauser Bi was killed simply because she was a witness to Sheikh's fake encounter.
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