CBI SEEKS SC NOD TO PROBE SHAH’S ROLE IN PRAJAPATI MURDER

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought the Supreme Court’s nod to probe former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah’s role in the killing of Tulsiram Prajapati, an eyewitness in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. In its final probe report on Sohrabuddin case, submitted to the court recently, the CBI had expressed suspicion that Shah, a close aide of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, could be involved in Prajapati’s killing. Sohrabuddin, an alleged gangster, was killed in November 2005 by Gujarat Police. The policemen are alleged to have subsequently killed his wife Kauser Bi and accomplice Tulsiram Prajapati as they were said to have been eyewitnesses to the killing. The agency has expressed the suspicion about Shah’s involvement in eliminating Prajapati on December 28, 2006 following an analysis of ex-minister’s telephone call records between December 20 and 31, 2006. “The analysis of the mobile call details reveal that as many as 16 calls had been exchanged between Shah and Raj Kumar Pandian (a police officer arrested for Sohrabuddin’s killing) just before and after the encounter of Tulsiram Prajapati (on December 28, 2006),” said the CBI in its probe report to the court.