Ahmedabad, March 11: Two top IPS officers of Gujarat earlier lauded for their role in foiling an alleged Lashkar attempt to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi are now under the scanner of the Supreme Court for having faked the encounter. Police officers from Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan%u2019s Special Task Force (STF) are also alleged to have supported the Gujarat police in this matter.
Sohrabuddin Sheikh, suspected to be a Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operative, was shot dead at 5 am on November 26, 2005 in Ahmedabad by Gujarat and Rajasthan policemen while he was speeding on a motorcycle. The %u201Cterrorist%u201D was stopped by the police and he opened fire. The police fired back and killed him. The incident had earned accolades for then anti-terrorist squad chief D.G. Vanzara and superintendent of police Rajkumar Pandian. Now a year later, following the intervention of the Supreme Court, investigations have revealed serious discrepancies, indicating that this was a fake encounter.
Sohrabuddin%u2019s wife Kausar Bibi has been missing since the incident. The Supreme Court stepped in on a habeas corpus petition by Kausar Bibi%u2019s Rubabuddin. The court directed the Centre to submit a report in two weeks, and it also forwarded Rubabuddin%u2019s petition to the Gujarat police, which asked the state CID (crime) to look into it. IGP Geetha Johri constituted a team of upright police officers, who went to Hyderabad, Sangli, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and came back with shocking evidence indicating a fake encounter.
The interim report submitted to the Supreme Court, a copy of which is with this newspaper, states that top ATS (anti-terrorist squad) officers, including senior IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian, had gone to Hyderabad and spent a couple of days interacting with the local police there. Two fake numberplates starting with the series AP-11 were made in Hyderabad by the Gujarat police.
The Gujarat and Andhra police personnel then travelled in private cars with fake numberplates. Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bibi were travelling in a M.J. Travels bus (# KA05 AF5051) from Hyderabad to Sangli on November 23, 2005 The bus was intercepted at Tandola village at around 1.30 am. At least six bus passengers as well as the driver have testified, on the basis of pictures shown to them, that Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bibi were co-travellers and had been picked up by the policemen. All the passengers, however, said that three people were picked up from the bus.
The Andhra Pradesh police left Ahmedabad soon after. The Sheikhs were kept confined at a private farmhouse in Ahmedabad. A day later, Sohrabuddin was taken from the farmhouse to a flat near Vishalla Tolnaka Road, where one Tulsiram Prajapati was reportedly called by the Gujarat police to identify him. Tulsiram and Sohrabuddin had been together in Ujjain jail. Soon after the identification, Sohrabuddin was brought to the main road at a
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by rafiuddin farooqui on Mar 22, 2007 09:40 PM Permalink
This article published in Deccan Chronicle. For your kind Information. Keep your abusing language in you mouth and shut-up. You RSS GANG Goons.
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by Sudhir Murdeshwar on Mar 22, 2007 10:15 PM Permalink
Deccan Chronicle is run by Muslims like you, thats why these diabolic & satanic articles are published.
