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Prajapati encounter case : CBI grills former Gujarat Minister Amit Shah
New Delhi, January 10, 2012
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today questioned former Gujarat minister Amit Shah, considered a close aide of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, in connection with the alleged fake encounter death of Tulsiram Prajapati in 2006.
Prajapati was said to be a key witness in the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, an alleged gangster, and his wife Kausarbi.
Shah was questioned at the CBI headquarters here in connection with the Tulsiram Prajapati case, sources from the agency said.
The former minister is out on bail after being arrested in the Sohrabuddin case. He has been asked by the Supreme Court not to enter Gujarat as the CBI alleged that he may tamper with the evidence or intimidate the witnesses.
Prajapati was killed in an alleged shootout in Banaskantha district of Gujarat on December 28, 2006.
The CBI took over the case in April last year on directions from the Supreme Court and registered a case against police officials of Gujarat and Rajasthan and others.
The FIR was registered following the apex court's directions on a writ petition filed by Narmada Bai, Prajapati's mother.
His mother had alleged that he was killed in a fake encounter by the Gujarat police as he was the key eyewitness in the 2005 killing of Sohrabuddin and Kausarbi.
It was alleged that a team of Gujarat police had abducted Tulsiram along with Sohrabuddin and Kausarbi from a bus in Hyderabad.
NNN
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