No vendetta against Amit Shah, CBI tells apex court
September 28th, 2011 - 11:52 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Sep 28 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Wednesday dismissed the allegation that former Gujarat minister Amit Shah was a target of political vendetta in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shootout case.
The CBI told an apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai that “it is a case of extortion, misuse of authority, tampering of evidence, liquidation of witnesses by a crime syndicate of police officers headed by Amit Shah”.
Additional Solicitor General Vivek Tankha told this to the court while seeking the quashing of the Gujarat High Court order granting bail to Shah Oct 29, 2010.
On Oct 30, 2010, the apex court while keeping the CBI plea pending directed Shah to stay away from Gujarat and the situation continues till date.
Pointing to the alleged involvement of Shah in the murder of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, killing of his wife Kausarbi and witness Tulsiram Prajapati, Tankha referred to the statements of former Gujarat officials who investigated the cases.
All the officials had spoken about the pressure being put by Shah to derail the investigations in order to save accused former Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) head D.G. Vanzara and police official R.K. Pandiyan, he said.
He said that there was lot of evidence that pointed to the involvement of Shah in extortion and staged shootout killings.
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