The withdrawal:
Rubabuddin Sheikh has withdrawn his petition against BJP president Amit Shah in the Bombay High Court
The petition questioned Shah's discharge by a CBI court in connection with the encounter of Rubabuddin's brother Sohrabuddin
The reason:
Rubabuddin says he is too tired to continue fighting. He has neither the finances nor the energy
No one came forward to help him. Not even the Congress
More in the story
Is there evidence against those who got Sohrabuddin killed?
Is Rubabuddin withdrawing the case under fear?
'Supreme Court Bar Association president Dushyant Dave on Wednesday questioned the top court's decision to grant bail to all accused in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, and also former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani, who was convicted for the murder of 70 people during the 2002 Gujarat riots. A bench comprising Justices JS Khehar, Jasti Chelameswar, Madan B Lokur, Kurian Joseph and Adarsh Kumar Goel is hearing petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the National Judicial Commission Act (NJAC), which they claim will erode judicial independence...
"Narendra K Amin, one of the key accused policemen in the fake encounter cases of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, his wife Kauser Bi and Ishrat Jahan, who has been under suspension for nearly eight years, was brought back into the police by the Gujarat government on Friday... Amin was arrested by the CID (Crime) on June 6, 2007, and his name emerged as a key accused, along with his senior officers, including D G Vanzara (retired IPS), IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian, Dinesh M N, Rajasthan cadre IPS, among others, who were posted in Anti-terrorist Squad (ATs).
'A special CBI court dropped charges against Additional Director-General of Police, Gujarat, Geeta Johri on Monday in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter cases, saying the CBI had failed to obtain the mandatory sanction from the Gujarat government for prosecution of an IPS officer. “Prosecution against Johri stands dropped for want of sanction,” Judge M.B. Gosavi said after her counsel, Sachin Pawar, moved a discharge application on the ground that the sanction had not been obtained... Ms.
'Controversial ex-IPS officer DG Vanzara, an accused in the fake encounter cases of Ishrat Jahan and Soharabuddin Sheikh, on Wednesday walked out of the Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad after spending almost seven and half years in prison. Soon after his release, an elated Vanzara said, "Surely, acche din (Good days) have returned for me and other Gujarat police officers." The former Gujarat top cop alleged that the state police was targeted for "extra legal political reasons". "Police of every state in the country fought against terrorism.
'Four days after a CBI court granted bail to suspended IPS officer PP Pandey in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, Gujarat government today revoked his suspension and reinstated him in service. “The state government has revoked the suspension order of PP Pandey and appointed him on the vacant cadre post of Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order), Gujarat state, Gandhinagar,” an order issued by state Home Department said...
'The order by the Central Bureau of Investigation providing a clean chit to former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah has wiped out the entire slate of the Supreme Court's intervention in various encounter death cases. The discharge of the "lynchpin" of the conspiracy despite voluminous material providing strong grounds for proceeding with the trial will ultimately raise questions about judicial independence. It is a matter of record that the State of Gujarat – after stout denial – admitted that Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife had been killed in illegal police custody.
"Once again the Indian Investigating agencies and Judiciary have failed the people of India by letting out a powerful political leader despite having enough evidence of involvement in a henious crime. Amit Shah has been acquitted by the Special CBI Court, Bombay, in the Sohrabuddin murder case even before the trial for the case could start.
Even by the plummeting standards set in the last few months, the decision of the special CBI court in discharging Amit Shah, (accused no. 16 in the second chargesheet; accused no. 1 in the third chargesheet) in the Sohrabuddin encounter case, seems outrageous.
"Congress on Tuesday described the special CBI court discharging BJP chief Amit Shah in Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter killing case as “strange and worrisome”, and alleged that there was “government pressure” on a “chained, caged and totally immobilised” CBI.
