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Prajapati encounter: Amit Shah in court today?

| | May 23, 2014, at 04:44 pm
Mumbai, May 23 (IBNS) Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi's key aide Amit Shah on Friday is likely appear before a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court here in connection with the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case.

Shah had faced arrest earlier on charges of misusing his Gujarat Home Minister's position to conspire with the state police for the fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, a criminal, and Tulsiram Prajapati, an eye witness to the encounter. 

Prajapati was a key witness in the fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, in which Shah was allegedly involved.

Prajapati was allegedly kidnapped by police and ATS and killed in cold blood. The involvement of police of neighbouring states of Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan is also suspected in the staged encounter.

Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausar Bi were killed in an alleged staged encounter near Ahmedabad in November 2005, while Prajapati was killed in an alleged police encounter in 2006 end.

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