JOIN USThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday arrested Deputy Superintendent of police Tarun Barot for his alleged involvement in the fake encounter case of Bhavnagar youth Sadiq Jamal.
Barot, who is now heading the district police in Mehsana in North Gujarat, was with the Ahmedabad Crime Branch when the encounter had taken place near the Galaxy cinema in Naroda area of the city on January 13, 2003.
After the encounter, the crime branch had claimed that they had intelligence inputs that Sadiq was a noted criminal in the league of dons like Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel and had planned to kill BJP leaders, including Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Sadiq’s brother had approached the high court following which a CBI inquiry was ordered. The agency had found that the encounter was fake. This was the fourth police encounter that has been declared as fake and its probe transferred to the central probe agency. The CBI has already arrested journalist Ketan Tirodkar in the case.