The Supreme Court on Monday said that there was “no question” of examining any challenge to the discharge of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the alleged staged “encounter” killings of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his aide Tulsiram Prajapati, and the alleged murder of Sohrabuddin Sheikh’s wife Kauser Bi in Gujarat, reported Bar and Bench.
Hearing an appeal by Rubabuddin Sheikh, the brother of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, the court sought responses from the Central Bureau of Investigation and 22 persons, including 21 police personnel, who had been accused in the case.
Rubabuddin Sheikh has challenged the Bombay High Court’s May 7 decision to uphold the acquittal of the 22 persons accused in the case.
Sohrabuddin Sheikh, who was a wanted criminal, was killed by the Gujarat Police in November 2005 in an “encounter”, which is alleged to have been staged. He and his wife were travelling by bus from Hyderabad to Sangli in Maharashtra when they were stopped by the Gujarat and Rajasthan police, allegedly abducted and shot dead near Gandhinagar.
A sub-inspector also allegedly raped Kauser Bi before murdering her. Prajapati was the sole witness to the murders. He was in police custody after the incident but was shot dead in another “encounter” in December 2006, when the police claimed he was trying to escape.
Shah had been accused...
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