' After IPS officer G L Singhal’s reinstatement, another policeman, named in the Ishrat Jahan case chargesheet — head constable Anaju Chaudhary — is back in the police fold. Chaudhary was posted at the State Reserve Police (SRP) in Godhra last week and is currently deployed at Ramol for Muharram security.
"...RESUME
AMIT SHAH...
II. EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:
1) Arrested on July 25, 2010 on charges of murder, conspiracy, kidnapping and extortion besides five other sections of Indian penal Code in connection with the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in a fake encounter. Also, later for eliminating his wife Kausar Bi and associate Tulsiram Prajapati. (Please NOTE that this was the FIRST instance in the history of independent India that a serving home minister had been arrested on such charges.)
(This article was originally published by DNA, but subsequently removed from its website. We are carrying the full piece here.)
"Late last week, a special CBI court adjourned the bail application of Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin and Tulsi Prajapati fake encounter cases, accepting his excuse that he was engaged in political work in New Delhi. Shah, 49, the first serving Home minister of a state to have gone behind bars in a criminal case of murder and conspiracy had a legitimate reason to skip court hearings. He was presiding and taking part in day-long meetings in Delhi with senior RSS leaders and BJP functionaries who were all set to seal his fate as the next BJP President...
'MUMBAI: The special CBI court here yet again exempted BJP leader Amit Shah from appearing before it today in connection with the alleged fake encounter cases of Tulsiram Prajapati and Sohrabuddin Sheikh.
"(Shah) is engaged in political work in New Delhi and therefore not able to come to court," read the exemption application filed by Shah's lawyer Robin Mogera.
"The Home Ministry is likely to deny sanction to CBI to prosecute four Intelligence Bureau officials, including its former Special Director Rajinder Kumar, in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter killing case... CBI has handed over to Home Ministry the documents sought by it to take a decision regarding the granting of sanction to the agency to prosecute the four Intelligence Bureau officials. Home Ministry had asked for the 'case diary' and the Superintendent of Police's final report before deciding whether to give the sanction to prosecute the IB officers..."
"The CBI in the Bombay High Court (HC) has stressed at suspended Gujarat IPS officer D G Vanzara’s alleged collusion with another suspended IPS officer Abhaysinh Chudasama in “eliminating Sohrabuddin Sheikh”. Relying on a chart, the investigating agency has stressed on Vanzara’s complicity in fake encounters of Sheikh, his wife Kauserbi and eye-witness Tulsiram Prajapati, and opposed his bail plea... “He (Vanzara) is in conspiracy with Abhay Chudasama and Amit Shah stage-managed Navrangpura firing incident and threatened Patel brothers to give statement against Sohrabuddin.
'The relationship between the judiciary and the NDA has begun on a sinister note. What has been achieved by the former Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium withdrawing his name from consideration for appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court is the supremacy of the Executive over the judiciary. This exhibits a desire by the NDA government to pack the judiciary with friendly judges and exercising the power of veto over the recommendations of the judiciary by disqualifying those who are inconvenient to them...
"Days after special CBI judge J T Utpat pulled up BJP general secretary Amit Shah for failing to make an appearance before the court hearing the case pertaining to the alleged fake encounter of Tulsiram Prajapati in Gujarat in December 2006, the judge received his transfer order on Wednesday. Sessions judge Utpat, who was transferred to Pune, has been replaced by judge B H Loya.
"There couldn't have been a more crude and small minded approach by the State apparatus to put down a candidate's nomination as a judge of Supreme Court. The campaign of innuendoes by CBI and Intelligence Bureau against Gopal Subramanium has indeed left a bad taste and will not enhance the image of the government. The manner in which the BJP government blocked Subramanium's nomination to the Supreme Court is a harbinger of how it will possibly use its brute power in the near future.
' AS former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium withdrew his candidature as Supreme Court judge after the BJP government red-flagged his appointment, the Congress Wednesday called the development “ominous” and accused the government of abusing institutions.
