SP ARRESTED FOR PRAJAPATI ENCOUNTER

Dahod S.P. Vipul Aggarwal was arrested from Gandhinagar on May 3, in connection with the Tulsi Prajapati fake encounter case. Prajapati was the lone eyewitness in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case, in connection with which Deputy Commissioner of Police, Ahmedabad Abhay Chudasama was arrested recently. Prajapati was killed on December 29, 2006, in an alleged encounter before the CID probing the Sohrabuddin case could take his statement. Aggarwal was the Banaskantha S.P. at the time of the Prajapati encounter. This is the first major arrest in the case by the Gujarat CID. Incidentally, the Gujarat government has so far been refusing to hand over papers related to the Prajapati encounter case to the CBI probing Sohrabuddin’s death. The agency had asked for the papers on the grounds that the Supreme Court had asked it to probe into the larger conspiracy behind Sohrabuddin’s killing. Earlier, Gujarat-cadre IPS officers Girish Singhal and Rajnish Rai had appeared before the CBI in connection with the Sohrabuddin case. The CBI had summoned the two along with four other current and retired IPS officers, including Geetha Johri, O.P. Mathur, V.V. Rabari and G.C. Raigar regarding the case.