Sohrabuddin case: Lawyers' body files PIL against CBI


Mumbai, Jan 19 (PTI): A city-based lawyers' association today filed a public interest litigation in the Bombay High Court against the CBI decision not to challenge a lower court order discharging BJP president Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter case.

In the PIL, the Bombay Lawyers Association has urged the High Court to issue a direction to the CBI to file revision application challenging the sessions court order discharging Shah.

The petitioner's lawyer Ahmad Abidi said the plea would be mentioned before a division bench of justices S C Dharmadhikari and Bharti Dangre on January 22.

"The CBI is a premier investigating agency. It has public duty to observe the rule of law in its action which it has miserably failed," the petition said.

It submitted that the trial court had similarly discharged two Rajasthan Police Sub Inspectors Himanshu Singh and Shyam Singh Charan and senior Gujarat Police officer N K Amin.

"The petitioner has learnt that the CBI has challenged their discharge before the high court. This act of the CBI in challenging discharge of the accused persons on selective basis is arbitrary and unreasonable, rather malafide," it alleged.

The petition claimed that the Supreme Court, while transferring the trial in the case from Gujarat to Mumbai, had ordered that it to be concluded expeditiously.

"The Supreme Court had said the Administrative Committee of the high court would assign the case to a court where the trial may be concluded judiciously, in accordance with the law, and without any delay. The Administrative Committee would also ensure that the trial should be conducted from beginning to end by the same officer, the apex court had said in its order," it said.

Sohrabuddin Shaikh, alleged to be a terrorist, was killed in an alleged fake encounter by the Gujarat and Rajasthan police along with his wife Kauser Bi and his associate Tulsi Prajapati in 2005.

  

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Bengaluru/Katapadi

    Fri, Jan 19 2018

    Only honest and deserving people will get through in these tough tests

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  • Ahmed K.C., Mangalore

    Fri, Jan 19 2018

    But, they plan, and God plans.
    And God is the best of planners

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  • SMR, Karkala

    Fri, Jan 19 2018

    The present controversial CBI Director Rakesh Asthana, officer of the 1984 batch of the IPS belonging to the Gujarat cadre. He was appointed as special director of the CBI on October 22 by an order issued by the appointments committee of the cabinet comprising PM Modi and Union home minister Rajnath Singh.
    Asthana has held a number of important positions in his career, including those of inspector general of police, Vadodara, joint commissioner of police, Ahmedabad city and commissioner of police in Surat and Vadodara. He was part of the special investigation team (SIT) appointed by the Gujarat government to inquire into the infamous Godhra train burning episode in 2002. Asthana is understood to be close to the prime minister as well as the BJP president Amit Shah.
    The NGO, Common Cause, had gone to court challenging Asthana’s appointment on the grounds that his name had figured in a 2011 diary seized from Sterling Biotech – a company being probed by the CBI for money laundering – as the alleged recipient of payments worth Rs 3.8 crore. The diary in turn became the basis for the CBI to file an FIR in August 2017 against the firm’s promoters and “other unknown public servants and private persons.” Asthana was not named in the FIR but was presumably the subject of an ongoing investigation by his own agency.

    This is the first time in the history of India CBI Director investigating his own fraud by his own agency.
    This is the same CBI prosecuted him for 2G scam but twice in court Modi government helped Essar’s Ravi Ruia travel abroad. Essar is one of the major fundraiser for 2014 Lok sabha elections.
    CBI which was caged parrot during UPA government now made to speak the same language of PM Modi's government related his cases critical to BJP government.
    So Amit Shah, Essar, 2G , Anil Ambani memory loss blunder continents in the hands of premier investigating agency.
    Jai Hind

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  • Moshu, Mangaluru

    Fri, Jan 19 2018

    For the time being " Riot King" enjoy day night nightmares and night and let there be a bit of break for further "fueling" strategy. .

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  • Ramesh, Kasaragod

    Fri, Jan 19 2018

    Even Bhagavan Shrikirshna faced fake charges. Honest people will come out with clean image

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  • JAGDISH, Mumbai

    Fri, Jan 19 2018

    congress slave still alive ?

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  • Raj shetty, Mangalore

    Fri, Jan 19 2018

    Under courtesy of Feku & Dhaku still alive.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Fri, Jan 19 2018

    Amit Shah's days are Numbered ...

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  • Nateshan K, c

    Sat, Jan 20 2018

    If amit shah's days are numbered sonia gandi's days are also nearing an end. Today National Herald case will be a game changer

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