Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad Rural Court will give decision on bail plea of suspended DySP Tarun Barot, who is in judicial custody for his alleged involvement in Sadiq Jamal encounter case on June 23.

Arguments in this case are over.

Shri Barot has been in jail since his arrest by CBI in September 2012.

Sadiq Jamal from Bhavnagar, was killed in an encounter by Gujarat police in Naroda area in the city on January 13, 2003.

The genuineness of the encounter became an issue after a Mumbai-based former scribe, Ketan Tirodkar, filed affidavit before a court there that he was witness to Jamal’s hand-over to Gujarat police by ‘encounter specialist’ officer Daya Nayak of Mumbai police a few days before the encounter.

The Gujarat High Court ordered CBI probe upon a petition of Shabbir Jamal, Sadiq’s brother. The central agency has chargesheeted Barot along with seven others.