Sohrabuddin case: 1 more witness turns hostile

MUMBAI: One extra prosecution witness in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati alleged pretend come across circumstances became opposed prior to a special CBI court right here on Monday, taking the full choice of such witnesses to 60.


The court has to this point tested 86 prosecution witnesses.

The witness, Bhawar Singh, the then station house officer of Hathipol police station in Rajasthan, was the investigating officer of the Hamid Lala homicide case through which both Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram Prajapati have been accused.

Singh deposed on Tuesday prior to special judge S J Sharma.

In a statement given prior to CBI officer NS Raju in December 2010, Singh had said that he and his workforce had arrested Prajapati from the house of 1 Chandan Jha in Bhilwara on November 29, 2005.

He made a identical statement prior to the judicial Justice of the Peace under segment 164 of the CrPC.

However, in any other statement prior to CBI officer Vishwas Meena in 2011, Singh had said that the arrest was made on November 26, 2005.

On Tuesday, he told the court he needed to trade the date because the CBI had threatened that he would be arrested and made an accused in the come across case.

Sohrabuddin, a suspected gangster with terror hyperlinks, and his spouse have been killed in an alleged pretend come across via the Gujarat Police in November 2005.

Tulsiram Prajapati was killed in any other alleged pretend come across via the Gujarat and Rajasthan police in December 2006.

Of the 38 other folks charged via the CBI, 15, together with senior IPS officers D G Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandian, Dinesh MN, and BJP leader Amit Shah (then the Minister of State for Home in Gujarat) have been discharged via the court.