Click to play videoNew Delhi: It is not just confessions and medical statements in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh encounter case that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has obtained. The investigating agency has also obtained call records which reveal that Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah was in constant touch with ATS chief DGVanzara soon after the Sohrabuddin encounter.
The records do not reveal the details of the conversations but just establish that the minister was in constant touch with the ATS chief.
CNN-IBN has accessed call details of the key people allegedly involved in the killing of Tulsi Prajapati including Amit Shah, and police officers Rajkumar Pandyan then with the Gujarat ATS, DG Vanzara, MN Dinesh from Rajasthan Police and Vipul Aggarwal, then SP of the Banaskantha district. The phone records show that for two weeks before Tulsi's killing, these officers and the Minister were in touch with each other.
The calls indicate that officers accused of Sohrabuddin's killing were in touch with each other or with the Minister Amit Shah before Prajapati's killing. They remained in close touch with each other after the killing. The sequence of the calls continued well till the evening of December 28.
The mystery in Prajapati's case is why were the same set of senior police officers constantly in touch with each other before and after the killing?
Legally, phone calls made between individuals means nothing. But why was a minister in touch with police officers who are now under a cloud of suspicion?
That is a political question which Shah may be hard-pressed to answer.
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