Amit Shah, PC Pande, Geetha Johri, OP Mathur, RK Patel chargesheeted


Ahmedabad, 4 September 2012

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today filed a chargesheet in the Prajapati fake encounter case and named former Gujarat minister Amit Shah, former Gujarat Director General of Police PC Pande, IPS officers OP Mathur and Geetha Johri, and Deputy Superintendent of Police RK Patel in it.

As per the CBI version of story, Prajapati was a witness to the alleged fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh by the Gujarat Police in November 2005.

The CBI had alleged that Sohrabuddin, Kauser Bi and another person, suspected to be Prajapati, were picked up by a team of Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh Police in a joint operation from a bus on its way to Sangli in Maharashtra from Hyderabad on November 22, 2005.