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SC upholds Amit Shah’s bail in Sohrabuddin encounter case | | In a major blow to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected its plea for cancellation of bail of Amit Shah, former minister and close aide of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. The apex court also allowed Shah to travel to Gujarat
. The CBI had argued for cancellation of Shah's bail on the grounds that he may
try to influence witnesses in the case. The SC, however, ordered the shifting
of trial to Mumbai, one of the key demands of the investigating agency. Sohrabuddin
and his wife Kauser Bi were allegedly abducted by the Gujarat's Anti-Terrorist
Squad (ATS) from Hyderabad and killed in a fake encounter near Gandhinagar in
November 2005. Shah was arrested by the CBI on July 25, 2010 and had spent over
three months in Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad. He had to quit the Modi government
in July last year after having been slapped with kidnapping and murder charges
in the fake encounter killing. The CBI, however, has filed a chargesheet against
Shah in Tulsiram Prajapati case. The CBI had said that Mr Prajapati was a witness
in the Sohrabuddin case and his killing was part of a larger conspiracy in which
Shah, as the then head of the state administration, was involved.
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