Click to play videoNew Delhi: It's clear now that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) won't pursue Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
Sources have told CNN-IBN that CBI investigating the case has no evidence to nail Modi in the fake encounter case.
Modi was alleged to have effected the transfer of police officers involved in the case. But CBI sources told CNN-IBN that transferring officers cannot be seen as a proof an involvement in the killings.
Earlier, Narendra Modi had alleged that the CBI was working at the behest of the Congress in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case. His close aide Amit Shah was forced to quit as Gujarat minister of state for home after he was chargesheeted in the Sohrabuddin case and arrested, Modi slammed the CBI saying, "Whatever has been happening in Gujarat since last week shows that Congress has accepted its defeat in Gujarat. In the next assembly election Congress is going to field CBI officials against our candidates."
Sohrabuddin was killed by the Gujarat police in a fake encounter in 2005. He was alleged to be a terrorist planning to assassinate Modi to avenge the death of Muslims killed during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
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