Sohrabuddin case: One more witness turns hostile

MUMBAI: One more prosecution witness in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati alleged fake stumble upon circumstances turned opposed before a unique CBI courtroom right here on Monday, taking the full selection of such witnesses to 60.


The courtroom has to this point examined 86 prosecution witnesses.

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

Singh deposed on Tuesday before particular judge S J Sharma.

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

He made a equivalent statement before the judicial Justice of the Peace under phase 164 of the CrPC.

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

On Tuesday, he told the courtroom he needed to exchange the date because the CBI had threatened that he would be arrested and made an accused in the stumble upon case.

Sohrabuddin, a suspected gangster with terror hyperlinks, and his spouse have been killed in an alleged fake stumble upon through the Gujarat Police in November 2005.

Tulsiram Prajapati was once killed in any other alleged fake stumble upon through the Gujarat and Rajasthan police in December 2006.

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