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: Four policemen who were accompanying Sylvester Daniel, a key aide of slain gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh have been found guilty of negligence and are under suspension, Gujarat DGP Chitranjan Singh said on Sunday. They have been arrested by the Rajasthan police, he said. Sylvester 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...
12:21 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
New Delhi: The Centre has taken on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over Indian Police Service officers complaining of victimisation by the state government. Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said that the Centre may step in following complaints by the police officers. Chidambaram reiterated that there are rules which allow the Centre to intervene but only at the behest of the officer concerned. "Rules do provide for Central...
04:06 PM, Aug 12, 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
New Delhi: Former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah conspired with policemen to kill Tulsiram Prajapati, a witness to the Sohrabuddin fake encounter, CBI told the Supreme court on Wednesday. Shah is also a close aide to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The CBI has claimed that Shah had conspired with a section of Gujarat police officials to eliminate Prajapati in 2006. The CBI told the Supreme Court this was because...
06:58 PM, Mar 09, 2011
CBI has claimed that Shah has conspired with a section of Gujrat police officials to kill Tulsiram Prajapati. ...
06:41 PM, Mar 09, 2011
Gandhinagar: The CBI on Thursday appealed to the Gujarat High Court against a lower court's refusal to allow a voice sample test of two accused policemen in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shootout case. Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Court Judge GK Upadhayay on January 5 set aside a magistrate's order earlier that allowed the probe agency to conduct a voice sample test of former deputy commissioner of police...
04:50 PM, Feb 03, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought the Gujarat government's response on Central Bureau of Investigation's plea to transfer outside the state the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case in which former state home minister Amit Shah and senior police officers are accused. While seeking the response, a bench of justices Aftab Alam and RM Lodha issued notices to the state and 19 others, including various accused police officers. Senior...
03:52 PM, Jan 19, 2011
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