New Delhi, Apr 8 (ANI): The Supreme Court will on Monday pronounce its verdict on a plea by former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah against the CBI's attempt to make him stand trial separately into the killings of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati in alleged fake encounters.
The apex court decision comes nearly a week after Shah was appointed as the general secretary of the BJP.
Shah, who is also believed to be a close aide of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, has accused the CBI of acting with a "malafide design" to seek his police custody again by filing a separate chargesheet in the Prajapati case.
The CBI, however, took a contrary stand in its chargesheet in the Prajapati case, filed in November. The probe agency claims that both case conspiracies were different.
Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauser Bi were allegedly abducted by the Gujarat's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) from Hyderabad and killed in a fake encounter near Gandhinagar in November 2005.
While Tulsiram Prajapati, a key witness to the encounter, was allegedly killed by police at Chapri village in Banaskantha district in December 2006.
Shah was arrested by the CBI on July 25, 2010 and had spent over three months in Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad. He had to quit the Modi government after having been slapped with kidnapping and murder charges in the fake encounter killing.
The CBI had said that Prajapati was a witness in the Sohrabuddin case and his killing was part of a larger conspiracy in which Shah, as the then head of the state administration, was involved. (ANI)
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