The CBI seems to have run into differences with Gujarat government and may approach Supreme Court again as the State has been declining to handover details of a police encounter of Tulsi Prajapati, who is believed to be an eyewitness in the alleged Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
The CBI, which was directed by the Supreme Court to investigate into the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausarbi in 2005, had approached the Gujarat government seeking details of the police encounter of Prajapati, an undertrial who was lodged at Udaipur jail.
According to the State police, Prajapati was killed when he tried to escape from the custody while being shifted back to Gujarat from Rajasthan after attending a court trial.
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When contacted, CBI spokesperson Harsh Bahal said, “The Supreme Court had directed the CBI to also look into the larger conspiracy behind the Sohrabuddin case. In this connection, the case record of the death of Prajapati was called for from the government and Director-General of Police Gujarat, which is yet to come.”
While he refused to divulge further, sources in the investigating agency said if the State government continued to decline the information, the agency may approach the apex court again seeking directions for handing over the details of Prajapati case to it.