CBI court rejects NK Amin’s default bail plea

Ahmedabad, 9 July 2013

CBI court in Ahmedabad today rejected bail plea of suspended Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) N K Amin.

A jailed Gujarat police officer who is one of the accused in the “fake” encounter killings of Ishrat Jahan and three others had sought bail through his advocate Ruturaj Nanavati on the ground that CBI had filed “incomplete” chargesheet in the 2004 case.

In his application, Amin had claimed CBI, which is probing the encounter, failed to file a chargesheet against him within the stipulated 90 days of his arrest. The document filed yesterday by the Central agency was “incomplete”.

However CBI in its argument said that chargesheet was filed on 89th day, and court had already accepted the charesheet.

As per the chargesheet, Amin, along with Tarun Barot, another DySP, abducted Jahan, a Mumbai-based teenager, and her associate Javed Shaik alias Pranesh Pillai from a toll booth in Anand district two days prior to their killing on June 15, 2004 near Ahmedabad.

He is also accused of firing shots at Ishrat, Javed and two alleged Pakistani nationals Zeeshan Johar and Amjad Ali Rana. All four were killed by Ahmedabad Crime Branch in what CBI claimed was a staged shootout.

CBI arrested Amin on April 4 after his release on bail in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh encounter case.

Earlier, five policemen-accused in the case – G L Singhal, Barot, J G Parmar, Bharat Patel and Anaju Chaudhary – were granted default bail as CBI failed to file chargesheet within 90 days of their respective arrest.