Former Gujarat minister Amit Shah on Wednesday moved a petition praying that Justice Aftab Alam should also rescue himself from hearing the case.

Arrested by CBI for his alleged role in the fake encounter case, former Gujarat minister Amit Shah on Wednesday moved a petition in Supreme court and said the January 12 order of awarding CBI investigation in Sohrabuddin encounter case passed by a Bench comprising Justice Tarun Chatterjee, who has since retired, and Justice Aftab Alam suffered from grave impropriety.

Shah said the January 12 order ought to be recalled on the ground of bias “as there is a reasonable possibility or likelihood that Justice Chatterjee, who passed the order, was biased and suffered from automatic disqualification to hear the case as he himself was under investigation by CBI for criminal breach of trust at the time he was handing over the case to CBI”.

“If Justice Aftab Alam was in the know of the fact that Justice Tarun Chatterjee suffered from automatic disqualification, Justice Alam ought to have rescued himself from hearing the case,” he further pleaded.

Shah said CBI was brought into the case “by a conspiracy involving different institutions” and had carried out an unfair and illegal probe as an instrument of the central government to enable the Centre to wreak political vengeance on him and the Narendra Modi government.