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Gujarat IPS Officer Discharged in Sohrabuddin Fake Encounter Case

Sohrabuddin, a gangster whom Gujarat Police claimed had links with LeT, was killed in a fake encounter in 2005.

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Gujarat IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian was discharged by special CBI court in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case on Thursday.

The court has so far discharged BJP President Amit Shah, Rajasthan Home Minister Gulabchand Kataria, Rajasthan-based businessman Vimal Patni, former Gujarat police chief PC Pande, Additional Director General of Police Geeta Johri, Gujarat police officer Abhay Chudasama, along with Yashpal Chudasama and Ajay Patel, both senior office-bearers in the Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank,in the case.

Sohrabuddin, a gangster whom Gujarat Police claimed had links with terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, and his wife Kausar Bi, were allegedly abducted by Gujarat ATS from Hyderabad on their way to Sangli in Maharashtra.

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He was killed in a fake encounter near Gandhinagar in November 2005 after which his wife disappeared and was believed to have been killed.

Tulsiram, an aide of the gangster and an eyewitness to the encounter, was killed allegedly by police at Chapri village in Banaskantha district in Gujarat in December 2006.

The Sohrabuddin killing case was transferred to Mumbai in September 2012 at CBI’s request for a fair trial. In 2013, the Supreme Court had clubbed Tulsiram Prajapati’s encounter killing case with that of Sohrabuddin.

(With inputs from PTI.)

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