Congress leader Arjun Modhvadia charged the Gujarat police officials for tampering with the evidence and mounting pressure on the probing police officers in the investigation of Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. Modhvadia told reporters in Ahmedabad that Indian Police Services officer Rajkumar Pandian, who is now in jail in the fake encounter case, had tried to exert pressure on senior IPS officer Rajnish Rai to change the statements of some witnesses. Rai was briefly in-charge of investigation of the fake encounter case. To substantiate his allegation, Modhvadia produced a copy of detailed note Rai had made on April 7, 2007 regarding a telephone call he had received from Pandian. According to Modhvadia, subsequently, on April 9, 2007 Rai stated in his note that Pandian had come to his chamber and he insisted that “I should prevail over the investigation officer to get the statements changed as they were very crucial and would prove the abduction of Sohrabuddin and his wife by a joint team of Gujarat and Rajasthan police.”
“This clearly shows how the police officials, who are now behind the bars, tried their best to exert pressure on the officials who were involved in the investigation of the encounter case, which the state government has admitted as the fake encounter,” said Modhvadia. It is important that Rai had arrested three IPS officers, DG Vanjara, Rajkumar Pandian and Dinesh M N, who are currently behind the bars.