Jammu: The BJP on Friday accused the ruling Congress of "misusing" CBI against its rival parties and said that the case filed against Leader of Opposition in Rajasthan Assembly Gulab Chand Kataria in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case was "politically motivated".
"If people will leave the public life considering the CBI charge sheet is true, then nobody apart from Congress will survive. Neither DMK nor SP (Samajwadi Party) or BSP will survive. Nobody will survive. This government has the nature of threatening the other parties with CBI and saving its people from the CBI," Former Gujarat Home Minister and BJP General Secretary, Amit Shah, told reporters on Friday.
Kataria and three others have been booked in the fake encounter case. Sohrabbudin and his wife were allegedly abducted by the Gujarat Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) from Hyderabad and killed in a fake encounter near Gandhinagar in November 2005.
Shah, who is also an accused in the case and is out on bail, said that it was a "farce issue" and the court will come out with the truth. On the u-turn made by the Gujarat Government with regard to Maya Kodnani, Shah said, "Gujarat government has not taken any u-turn."...
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07:52 PM, May 17, 2013
Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday hit out at the BJP, which has called the CBI case against its leader Gulabchand Kataria politically motivated, saying that the party has double standards. "When CBI launches an investigation into a Congress leader they (the BJP) always demand their resignation, and if the agency tries to investigate a case against a BJP leader, they claim that it is being done at...
05:12 AM, May 17, 2013
Jaipur: Senior BJP leader Gulab Chand Kataria, who has been chargesheeted in Sohrabuddin encounter case, on Wednesday said he would resign from the Rajasthan Assembly if arrested in the case. "A political game has been played to implicate me in this case. The real face of CBI and the Union government will be revealed after the investigations," Kataria, who was in Jaipur to attend a meeting of the state assembly,...
10:50 PM, May 15, 2013
Jaipur: In what is likely to spell trouble for the Rajasthan BJP, the CBI has named Leader of Opposition Gulab Chand Kataria in its supplementary chargesheet in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. Kataria was questioned in connection with the conspiracy that led to the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, who was accused of being a terrorist. Three others have been charged as well along with Kataria. ...
07:26 PM, May 14, 2013
Ahmedabad: Rubabuddin Shaikh, brother of alleged slain gangster Sohrabuddin Shaikh, has demanded that CBI should investigate phone call records of the office of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and senior IPS officers in connection with the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case. "Rubabuddin Shaikh has sought probe of telephone calls between the office of Chief Minister and senior IPS officers under Sec 173 (8) of the CrPC," his lawyer Mukul Sinha...
10:42 PM, Apr 20, 2013
A day after the BJP announced its new team for the 2014 general elections, the focus has shifted to the newly appointed General Secretary, Amit Shah. Shah faces murder charges in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case and is out on bail. So will Narendra Modi's trusted aide become an embarrassment for the BJP? ...
10:51 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Ahmedabad: Nine accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, who were lodged in a city jail, were on Thursday sent to Mumbai under heavy security for their production before the special court there on November 23. Later, they all will be sent to a jail in Maharashtra, as per the decision of the special CBI court in Mumbai, before which they will be produced. The nine accused, including suspended...
06:57 PM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: Coming out in support of former state minister Amit Shah, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday termed his arrest as "unfortunate" and claimed that he was falsely implicated in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. "Judiciary is not under the government and is independent. Therefore, the state government need not comment on it. It is unfortunate he (Shah) was falsely implicated in the case and sent to...
10:45 PM, Sep 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday told the Gujarat government that it has been adopting "adversarial attitude" in the proceedings relating to the case of fake encounter killing of gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh in which its former minister Amit Shah is one of the accused. "Don't forget (that) the state has been taking adversarial attitude and sometime adversarial attitude turns into hostile attitude. Here is a prima facie case in...
11:05 PM, Sep 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would consider allowing former Gujarat Minister Amit Shah, an accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, to enter the state in view of the upcoming assembly polls but would like the trial of the case to be shifted to Maharashtra. "That is one aspect. That must come to an end (keeping him outside the state)," a bench comprising justices Aftab...
12:59 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday granted two weeks more time to CBI to complete its probe in the alleged encounter killing of Tulsiram Prajapati, an eyewitness to the 'fake encounter' of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. A bench of justices BS Chauhan and Swatanter Kumar made it clear that no more extension would be given to the agency to complete the probe and directed it to do so by August 14....
12:11 PM, Jul 20, 2012
Ahmedabad: A Gujarat High Court judge on Wednesday recused himself form hearing the bail plea of suspended IPS officer Abhay Chudasama who is currently behind bars on the charge of being the key conspirator in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. When the matter came up for hearing before Justice MD Shah, he recused himself from the case, saying "not before me". He did not give any reason for...
06:23 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: Former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah, considered a close aide of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, has been called to Delhi for questioning by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the 2006 fake encounter of Tulsiram Prajapati, a key witness to the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausarbi. The CBI asked Shah, who is out on bail after being arrested in the Sohrabuddin case,...
04:38 PM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Gujarat government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it has submitted all the relevant call details pertaining to the police officers involved in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing the case. While hearing the case, the two-judge bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai observed that Andhra Pradesh police angle and call records are the...
01:47 PM, Dec 07, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court pulled up the Narendra Modi government on Thursday for not handing over the CD's to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. The apex court had directed the Gujarat government to submit the CDs with call details of senior state police officials allegedly involved in the fake encounter case. Rapping the state government, the Supreme Court has given the...
01:55 PM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: Gujarat police is under the scanner again in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case after his former aide and a key witness in the case, Sylvester Daniel, escaped from custody. Four policemen, who were escorting him, have been arrested for negligence. A baffled state police chief said all four have been suspended. DGP, Gujarat Chitaranjan Singh said, "Our jail administration needs to be tightened especially for those who...
09:29 PM, Oct 09, 2011
New Delhi: Sylvester Daniel, a key aide of slain gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh, had escaped from the custody of the Gujarat police on Saturday. Sylvester was nabbed in Udaipur late on Saturday evening. Sylvester was lodged in the Vadodara central jail and was taken to Udaipur for a court hearing. Sylvester is a key witness for the CBI which is investigating the Sohrabuddin case. CBI has asked the Vadodara Police Commissioner...
06:25 PM, Oct 08, 2011
Ahmedabad: After Sanjiv Bhatt and Rahul Sharma, the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat appears to have targeted another senior police officer DIG Rajneesh Rai. Rai told the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) that his annual confidential report has been downgraded by the government. Rai in his report had brought out facts that prove that former Gujarat minister Amit Shah was influencing the investigations in the fake encounter cases. Rai had further...
10:06 AM, Aug 12, 2011
Ahmedabad: The CBI on Friday took over the case related to fake encounter of Tulsiram Prajapati - a key witness to the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausarbi - by re-registering FIR in its Mumbai office. CBI IG, P Kandaswamy, who is heading the investigation team, confirmed that FIR had been filed. He, however, declined to divulge more details. The Supreme Court, on April 8, had ordered that...
05:32 PM, Apr 29, 2011
New Delhi: In an embarrassment to the BJP government in Gujarat, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered a CBI probe into the alleged fake encounter killing of Tulsiram Prajapati, stated to be an eyewitness in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case allegedly involving former state minister Amit Shah. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and BS Chauhan rejected the plea of the Gujarat government that no CBI probe can be ordered...
11:37 AM, Apr 08, 2011
