Sohrabuddin Shaikh encounter: IPS officer destroyed leave records says CBI
Mumbai, Dec 5: A police officer facing trial for allegedly shooting Sohrabuddin Shaikh said through his counsel that investigations are not conducted on the basis of surmises, conjectures, presumptions and assumptions.
According to the Central Bureau of Investigation, Abdul Rehman, a police officer from Rajasthan was the officer who fired at Shaikh and later filed a complaint based on which the FIR was registered. Rehman, through his counsel denied the allegations and the same was submitted to the Special CBI court which is hearing the final arguments in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati encounter cases.
As final arguments in Sohrabuddin Shaikh begin, a glance at what the case is all about
Rehman
it
may
be
recalled
had
last
week
given
a
statement
to
the
court
that
he
had
not
filed
any
FIR.
I
was
pressurised
by
many
persons
to
say
that
the
FIR
was
genuine.
Meanwhile
the
personal
assistant
and
gunman
of
discharged
IPS
officer
Rajkumar
Pandian
said
that
a
person
who
can't
even
move
without
the
permission
of
his
senior
has
been
made
an
accused.
On the other hand, counsel for Ashish Pandya, who was accused by the CBI for shooting Prajapati said that it was an act of self defence. He said that Prajapati had attacked twice after which he was fired at. Pandya received a firearm injury on his left arm.
There were three bullet wounds on Prajapati's body and it is still not established if it was the bullet fired by Pandya that had killed him, the police officers counsel also said.
Pandya's counsel also argued that it has not been established if the injury on his client was self-inflicted.
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The CBI however contended that former Gujarat ATS chief, D G Vanzara had asked IPS officer Vipul Aggarwal to summon Pandya, who was on leave to carry out the Prajapati encounter. The leave record was destroyed by Aggarwal, the CBI also said. Pandya however said that there was no evidence of any meeting to show that the accused was part of a conspiracy to kill Prajapati.