‘Me in Jail Superintendent office’ story planted by CBI:Amit Shah

A special CBI court in Ahmedabad on Monday issued a notice to CBI after former Gujarat Minister of state for Home Amit Shah, accused in Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, filed an application accusing the investigating agency of planting false stories to stall his prospects of getting bail.

In his two-page application, Shah has referred to a news item in a local daily dated October 7, which stated that CBI had caught the former minister of state for home conducting a meeting with some politicians along with his son in the Sabarmati jail superintendent’s office, ahead of the civic poll in the city(the story also mentioned that Shah was sitting on Jail Superintendent’s chair and when CBI came there in connection with some other case, Shah shied and looked downwards and escaped from there).

Shah alleged in the application that CBI was planting such false stories in the media to malign his character, weaken his prospects of getting bail and influence witnesses.

He further alleged that CBI was doing all this at the behest of the Congress and demanded that an inquiry be ordered into the matter.

Shah said that as he was under judicial custody and in jail, he should be protected by the court against such efforts by the investigating agency.

The application by Shah was filed in the CBI court of additional Chief Judicial Magistrate A I Rawal, who issued a notice to the agency and asked it to file a reply by October 27.