Never named Amit Shah in any CBI statement, Sohrabuddin’s brother tells court

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Delhi, Sept 18, 2018 : Nayamuddin Sheikh, the youngest brother of gangster Sohrabuddin Shaikh, told a special CBI court on Monday that the Central Bureau of Investigation had added names of Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah and Gujarat police officer Abhay Chudasma on its own to his statement recorded in 2010.

 

The CBI had brought in Nayamuddin as a witness in the 2005 fake encounter case. The case relates to the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, his wife Kausar Bi, and aide Tulsi Prajapati. Both Chudasma and Shah were earlier given clean chits by the CBI in the fake encounter case.

Both Nayamuddin and his other brother Rubabuddin have been pursuing the case of their brother’s encounter and had at many points alleged threats from "powerful people".

In 2010, Nayamuddin apparently gave a statement to the CBI in which he claimed a threat to his life from Chudasma and Amit Shah. Nayamuddin has now denied making such a statement and has told the court that a CBI officer had essentially concocted that statement.

SOHRABUDDIN ENCOUNTER CASE

According to the CBI, in November 2005, alleged extortionists Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram along with Sohrabuddin’s wife Kausar Bi were travelling in a bus from Hyderabad to Sangli in Maharashtra when they were stopped by the teams from the Gujarat Police and Rajasthan Police and "abducted".

Soon after the alleged abduction, Sohrabuddin was allegedly killed in a fake encounter near Ahmedabad in Gujarat. His wife, Kausar Bi who disappeared after the incident, was later allegedly killed as well. However, her remains were never found.

Tulsiram, who is considered to be the sole witness to the murders, was held in police custody after the encounter and was killed in another encounter in December 2006, when the police claimed he had tried to escape custody.

 

NEVER NAMED AMIT SHAH: NAYAMUDDIN

Appearing at the special CBI court on Monday, Nayamuddin said that he had last seen his brother and sister-in-law when he dropped them off to a bus stand at Indore when they were travelling to Hyderabad.

He then denied claiming that Gujarat Police officer Abhay Chudasma had threatened him for naming Amit Shah in his petition seeking an investigation into his brother’s encounter.

Nayamuddin said he never spoke to the CBI about Abhay Chudasma and never named Amit Shah.

Nayamuddin’s 2010 statement, recorded by CBI officer DS Dagar, reads, "When I told Chudasama that we will not withdraw the petition at any cost, he threatened me with dire consequences and said that I would also face the same fate as Sohrabuddin. You do not know Amit bhai (Amit Shah) is very angry. I will speak to Amit bhai and he can get it done in Madhya Pradesh only. It is Amit bhai’s government there and you will be killed for making him a party in the petition."

Nayamuddin told the court that Dagar wrote down this on his own. Nayamuddin also denied telling the CBI that a man named Azam Khan had approached him on Chudasma’s behalf and offered him Rs 50 lakh to withdraw his petition seeking an investigation into his brother’s encounter.

Nayamuddin told the court, "I have no threat from the BJP. I have never heard Azam Khan’s name. Dagar sahab came to my village in an autorickshaw to inquire about this case. I have not said before him that Azam met me and said that Abhay Chudasama offered Rs 50 lakh to withdraw a petition filed in Supreme Court to inquire into the death of my brother."


Nayamuddin also told the court that he had asked Dagar why he had added the part about Chudasma threatening him. To this, Nayamuddin said, Dagar replied that he did not want innocent people to be punished. It was unclear who were the "innocent persons" Dagar was allegedly referring to.

After CBI lawyer BP Raju finished questioning Nayamuddin, advocate SV Raju who has represented Amit Shah and Abhay Chudasma in the case before their discharge, asked Nayamuddin if either of them had threatened him or offered any reason for him to make his new statement. Nayamuddin replied in the negative.

Nayamuddin’s brother Rubabuddin and CBI officer Dagar are likely to appear and make statements in the court in the coming days.


courtesy:yahoo