Former Gujarat minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said in the Supreme Court that CBI had filed a separate chargesheet in Tulsiram Prajapti staged shoot-out case just to take him into custody again.
‘It is whole perfidy of the CBI that after taking over the investigation (from the Gujarat Police) it is saying that two (Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapti) are separate cases with a sinister motive of to get me arrested again,’ Amit Shah told a bench of Justice P Sathasivam and Justice BS Chauhan.
Shah’s counsel Mahesh Jethmalani told the court that all though the CBI has parroted the theory of a ‘larger conspiracy’ – that staged killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, continued with that of his wife Kausarbi, and culminating in the killing of Tulsiram Prajapti – were a part of same transaction but now it was doing a somersault. ‘The larger conspiracy was the umbrella for the CBI for taking over investigation in Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati encounter case and now it could not take contrary stand and file a separate charge-sheet,’ he argued.
‘The CBI stand is a malafide design to seek police custody of Shah a second time. That is the whole purpose of taking two stands,’ Shah’s counsel Mahesh Jethmalani submitted before the bench.
‘It is whole perfidy of the CBI that after taking over the investigation (from the Gujarat Police) it is saying that two (Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapti) are separate cases with a sinister motive of to get me arrested again,’ Amit Shah told a bench of Justice P Sathasivam and Justice BS Chauhan.
Shah’s counsel Mahesh Jethmalani told the court that all though the CBI has parroted the theory of a ‘larger conspiracy’ – that staged killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, continued with that of his wife Kausarbi, and culminating in the killing of Tulsiram Prajapti – were a part of same transaction but now it was doing a somersault. ‘The larger conspiracy was the umbrella for the CBI for taking over investigation in Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati encounter case and now it could not take contrary stand and file a separate charge-sheet,’ he argued.
‘The CBI stand is a malafide design to seek police custody of Shah a second time. That is the whole purpose of taking two stands,’ Shah’s counsel Mahesh Jethmalani submitted before the bench.