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SC rejects Gujarat's plea to review
Prajapati shootout order
Friday July 13, 2012 10:23:44 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: In a major blow to the Gujarat
government, the Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking a
review of its order directing a CBI probe into the 2006 shootout
involving Tulsiram Prajapati - a witness to the events leading to
the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake gun battle.
An apex court bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice B.S.
Chauhan dismissed the state government's review petition after
considering it their chamber Thursday.
The Gujarat government had moved the apex court seeking a review
of its April 8, 2011 order directing the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) to probe into the elimination of the Prajapati
allegedly by Gujarat Police personnel.
The court gave direction for a CBI probe into the killing of
Prajapati on the petition his mother Narmada Bai.
The court by its April 8 verdict had said: "Considering the nature
of crime that has been allegedly committed not by any third party
but by the police personnel of the State of Gujarat, we are
satisfied that the investigation conducted and concluded in the
present case by the State police cannot be accepted."
The then DIG D.G. Vanzara was moved to the border district of
Sabarkantha just 10 days before the encounter of Prajapati.
Vanzara -- now in judicial custody -- is also an accused in the
Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shootout case. The role of the former
Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah too was under the
scanner of the CBI.
The court while directing the CBI probe had said that in view of
the circumstances and the involvement of the police officers of
Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan, "it would not be desirable
to allow the Gujarat State Police to continue with the
investigation,(and), to meet the ends of justice and in the public
interest, we feel that the CBI should be directed to take the
investigation."
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