Ahmedabad, 25 May 2012

Given the fact that the Supreme Court has given time limit of 31st of May 2012 to file report, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely present its report on Tulsi Prajapati encounter probe in court on Monday or Tuesday.

Sources claim CBI has completed the investigation in Tulsi Prajapati encounter case. However if it is not so, the agency can again demand more time to file a report. If suggested in report, more cops may face arrests in Tulsi Prajapati encounter case. The Amit-Shah-part of the report will have political significance too.

Early this month, Deputy superintendent of police (DySP) in the CBI, Binay Kumar, who was investigating the Tulsi Prajapati fake encounter case, was removed from the investigation and transferred to Delhi to take care of other cases, and Superintendent of police (SP) Sandeep Tamgadge to whom Kumar was reporting, was asked to investigate the case directly.

The CBI took over the investigation into the Tulsi Prajapati case on April 29, 2011, after registering a fresh FIR at its Mumbai office.

Initially, inspector general, CBI, P Kandaswamy was heading the investigation into the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case and the Tulsi case. Later, however, he was also removed from the investigation.

The Supreme Court, on April 8, 2011, had transferred the investigation of Tulsi case to the CBI following an appeal filed by his mother, Narmada Bai. Tulsi’s mother had alleged in her petition that her son was killed in a fake encounter by the Gujarat police as he was a key eyewitness of the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in 2005.

Prajapati, a close aide of Sohrabuddin, was killed in a fake encounter near Chapri village in Banaskantha district on December 28, 2006.