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Gujarat minister headed 'crime syndicate', apex court told Submitted by admin4 <http://twocircles.net/user/admin4> on 28 September 2011 - 11:45am By IANS, New Delhi : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday told the Supreme Court that former Gujarat minister Amit Shah was the "commander of crime syndicate with some officials of state police as its foot soldiers" who would eliminate crucial witnesses in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shootout. The apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai was told that at every stage of the investigation, either the witness was made to retract his statement or was eliminated. Additional Solicitor General Vivek Tankha referred to the instance of prosecution witness Azam Khan retracting his statement and the alleged staged shootout killing of witness Tulsiram Prajapati to buttress his argument. Shah has been named as an accused in the case. On Oct 29, 2010, the Gujarat High Court granted bail to Shah but the very next day, the CBI moved the apex court seeking the cancellation of bail. The apex court, while keeping the CBI plea pending, directed Shah to stay away from Gujarat and the situation continues till date. Khan was abducted and forced to retract and even before the investigating officer could have been granted permission to travel to Rajasthan to record Prajapati's statement, he was killed in a staged gunfight, Tankha told the apex court. Khan retracted his statement a few days before the high court heard Shah's plea for bail that was rejected by a trial court in Ahmedabad, he said. "It is a telling commentary on how the entire machinery of the state is geared to erase evidence," Tankha told the court. The court was told that Shah made nearly 25 phone calls to Gujarat Police officer N.K. Amin during the days when Sohrabuddin's wife Kausarbi was allegedly killed. Senior counsel Ram Jethmalani earlier objected to Tankha describing as "fabricated" a document that was relied upon by Shah to contend that the investigating agency was pressing for his arrest so that some people could be brought as witnesses against him. Sheikh was killed in a staged shootout by Gujarat Police Nov 26, 2005. II. http://m.thehindu.com/news/national/article2491315.ece/?page=all ‘I was pressured to withdraw my report on Haren Pandya's murder' 28 September 2011, Manas Dasgupta Sanjiv Bhatt files affidavit in High Court against Narendra Modi and Amit Shah Dropping yet another bombshell, suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Tuesday filed an affidavit in the Gujarat High Court alleging that Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his former Minister of State for Home, Amit Shah, had repeatedly tried to pressure him to withdraw his report and destroy the documentary evidence which he had placed on record regarding the murder of the former Minister, Haren Pandya. “Failing to persuade me either to withdraw my report or destroy the very important documentary evidences regarding the role of certain highly placed State functionaries/politicians and senior police officers in the killing of Haren Pandya, I was removed from the post of Superintendent of Police in-charge of the Sabarmati central jail and was kept without a posting for over two-and-a-half months,” he said in the affidavit. Mr. Bhatt, who had created a flutter by filing an affidavit in the Supreme Court on Mr. Modi's alleged “dubious role” in the 2002 communal riots, had earlier made a startling revelation that it was Tulsiram Prajapati, the close aide of the fake encounter victim Sohrabuddin Sheikh, who had actually pulled the trigger on Mr. Pandya, who was killed in the morning of March 26, 2003. He had maintained that Asgar Ali, the key accused from Hyderabad who recently was acquitted by the High Court, had informed him about Prajapati's role in the Pandya murder case in 2003, when he was lodged in the Sabarmati central jail, where Mr. Bhatt was the jail superintendent. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
