There was a core difference between the investigations done by the Gujarat police and by the CBI in the Sohrabuddin case, said Rajkot Police Commissioner Geeta Johri, who complained before the Supreme Court that she was being pressured by the agency to implicate the former Gujarat Minister, Amit Shah.
In her curative petition, she said while the CBI theory was that the third person who accompanied Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausar Bi (who were travelling by a Hyderabad- Sangli bus) was Tulsiram Prajapati, the Gujarat police investigation, headed by her, showed that it was one Kalimuddin, with whom Sohrabuddin had stayed in Hyderabad prior to his abduction.
In her view, “the entire theory of the CBI that the person who accompanied Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bi from Hyderabad was Prajapati and, therefore, he was the eyewitness to the encounter death of Sohrabuddin [in 2005 on the outskirts of Ahmedabad] and hence he was eliminated to destroy evidence of the encounter death is totally an afterthought. So it was evident that the Andhra Pradesh police were stonewalling the investigation.”
Pointing out that Balwinder Singh, Additional DIG, CBI, who was formerly with the Andhra Pradesh police, was now associated with the investigation of the case, she said it was evident that the role of the Andhra Pradesh police was not being probed.
Ms. Johri sought a direction to recall the January 12 Supreme Court order — which indicted her while handing over the probe to the CBI — or, in the alternative, to expunge the observations against her and a direction that Mr. Balwinder Singh be not associated with the investigation. For, he himself ought to be examined on the clandestine role of the Andhra Pradesh police, she said.
