The special CBI court on Thursday refused to grant any special medical facility to the arrested Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch), Abhay Chudasma.
Mr. Chudasma, who was held in connection with the Sohrabuddin alleged fake encounter case, should be extended such facilities “only as per the jail manual.”
The court has also rejected the plea that he should be lodged in any jail other than the Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad and be separated from other prisoners.
The plea was made by his advocate on Wednesday after the special court rejected the CBI demand for further police remand and sent him to the judicial custody. The decision on the plea was kept pending for Thursday.
The CBI on Thursday further grilled the Superintendent of Police, Anti-Terrorist Squad, G. L. Singhal, who was among the six top Gujarat cadre IPS officers summoned by it in connection with the Sohrabuddin case. Mr. Singhal was the DSP, Gandhinagar, at the time of the Sohrabuddin encounter and was believed to have played an active role in managing the farm houses in Gandhinagar, where Sohrabuddin and his wife were initially lodged and from where Kauserbi later mysteriously “disappeared.”
Further questioning
The CBI is likely to further question Rajkot Police Commissioner Geetha Johri, who was the investigating officer of the case as the head of the CID (Crime); the Principal of the Police Training School, Rajnish Rai, who also had handled the case for some time and was considered the key witness for the CBI; and the retired additional director-general of police, O. P. Mathur. All the six IPS officers were asked to appear before the CBI between May 3 and 7.
