PIL in Bombay HC over discharge of Amit Shah in Sohrabuddin case

Shiv Kumar

Tribune News Service

Mumbai, January 19

A city-based lawyers’ association on Friday filed a public interest litigation (PIL) 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.

The PIL was filed by a group called the Bombay Lawyers’ Association (BLA).

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It will be mentioned before a Division Bench of judges SC Dharmadhikari and Bharti Dangre on January 22, according to BLA’s lawyer Ahmad Abidi.

According to the petitioner, the CBI had failed in its duty as the country’s main investigating agency in upholding the rule of law.

The petition said the CBI’s decision to challenge the discharge of three policemen even while not doing so in the case of Shah was arbitrary and malafide.

The CBI has challenged the discharge of two sub-inspectors of the Rajasthan Police, Himanshu Singh and Shyam Singh Charan and N K Amin of the Gujarat Police in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter case.

Sohrabuddin Shaikh, his wife Kauser Bi, and his associate Tulsi Prajapati were killed in an alleged fake encounter by the Gujarat and Rajasthan Police in 2005.

The original charge-sheet filed by the CBI in the matter in 2010 named 23 accused persons, including Amit Shah, who was then the home minister of Gujarat.