SC rejects CBI plea to cancel Amit Shah's bail

The Supreme Court today rejected the CBI's plea to cancel the bail of former minister and close aide of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. The investigating agency had petitioned the court for cancellation of Shah's bail on the grounds that he may try to influence witnesses in the case. The apex court, however, ordered the shifting of trial to Mumbai, one of the key demands of the investigating agency. Shah, who has been slapped with kidnapping and murder charges, was arrested by the CBI on July 25, 2010 and had spent over three months in Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad.