Prajapati case: SC dismisses state plea

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the Gujarat government’s review petition seeking recall of its order for a CBI probe into the alleged extra-judicial killing of Tulsiram Prajapati, an eyewitness to the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. HT reports.

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the Gujarat government’s review petition seeking recall of its order for a CBI probe into the alleged extra-judicial killing of Tulsiram Prajapati, an eyewitness to the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh.

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Gujarat’s ex-home minister Amit Shah has been chargesheeted in Sohrabuddin encounter case.

A bench of Justice P Sathasivam and Justice B S Chauhan said it found “no merit” in the state’s review petition that contended no CBI probe could be ordered as the state police had already filed a charge sheet.

The SC had in April 2011 ordered CBI probe on a plea by Narmada Bai who had alleged that her son Prajapati was killed in a staged gun battle.