Sharing a report by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the ruling Trinamool Congress alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) were conspiring to protect BJP president Amit Shah.
The Trinamool on Sunday stated that the AAP had raised “serious questions about the BJP-CBI nexus” and the CBI’s conduct in the case relating to the killings of Sohrabuddin, his wife Tulsiram Bi and Tulsiram Prajapati in a special CBI court. However, BJP State president Rahul Sinha dismissed the allegations as baseless.
“The Sohrabuddin-Kauser Bi-Tulsiram Prajapati murder trial would be a test case to measure how robust, fair and efficient our criminal justice system is. Sohrabuddin was killed not because he was a criminal or because the law agencies saw him as a threat to public order. He was killed because he had become inconvenient for his handlers in the government machinery,” a Trinamool release said.
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The CBI, according to the release, had earlier termed Mr. Shah as the “lynchpin of the conspiracy to eliminate the three victims.” The agency had also alleged that Mr. Shah was the kingpin of an extortion racket, which he operated with certain police officers of the Gujarat police and gangsters like Sohrabuddin.
Reacting to the report, Mr. Sinha said the AAP had run out of issues.