JOIN USFormer Gujarat Minister of State Amit Shah and senior police officers have been named in the charge sheet for the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case, submitted by the CBI in a court at Danta in north Gujarat.
Tulsiram Prajapati was allegedly killed in a fake encounter on December 28, 2006, by a team of Gujarat and Rajasthan Police, almost a year after the death of his accomplice Sohrabudin Sheikh and his wife Kausarbi.
The CBI, which also investigated the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabudin, had claimed in the charge sheet that Prajapati was a witness to the abduction of Sohrabudin and his wife.
The Gujarat CID had done little to establish that Prajapati was a witness to the abduction.
It had, however, arrested erstwhile Banaskantha police chief Vipul Aggarwal and about half a dozen policemen.
The CBI is believed to have established that the officers accused in the Sohrabudin case also conspired to eliminate Prajapati since he was a crucial witness.