The Gujarat high court here on Thursday transferred the Ishrat Jahan probe to the Supreme Court-appointed SIT.
Taking away the probe from the Gujarat police and also rejecting demand for a CBI probe in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, the Gujarat high court division bench of J

In what is being dubbed as vendetta action, the Narendra Modi government here on Tuesday, filed an FIR in a 26-year-old case of police encounter against IPS officer Kuldeep Sharma, accusing him of murders, criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence. With the FIR already lodged, Mr Sharma is likely to be arrested by the state police any time. Sources said, Mr Sharma is being targeted because he is reportedly helping the CBI in Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.

Gujarat DGP Shabbir Khandwawala reportedly called up CBI director Ashwani Kumar with a request that his ex-boss and former minister of state for home Amit Shah is not locked up in the CBI lock up room during his two-day remand. Mr Ashwani Kumar and Mr Khandwawala are batchmates, both being IPS officers of the 1973 batch.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday began rigorous custodial remand in connection with the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin, murder of his wife Kauser Bi. Two lawyers representing Mr Shah, Mitesh Amin and Yatin Oza were present at “visible distance” as per the court order. “We started his interrogation around

Former Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah has been remanded to two days in Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody in connection with the alleged fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh after the Gujarat high court on Friday accepted the CBI plea for custody.

The CBI on Thursday challenged in the Gujarat high court the order of a lower court rejecting its plea for remand of former Gujarat minister Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has no objection to N.K. Amin turning approver provided he first records his confessional statement before a magistrate, a CBI lawyer told a special CBI court here on Tuesday.

Vasundhara Raje, who was the chief minister of Rajasthan when Sohrabuddin was killed, had personally met the Rajasthan police team that had participated in his encounter, within a few hours of the encounter, appreciated their work, posed for pictures with them and also announced a reward.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi continues his attacks on the Congress, CBI and the Delhi sultanate saying they are treating “Gujarat as enemy state”.
On Saturday, Mr Modi hit out at the centre and its agencies like the CBI, which are out to “undermine his government”.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has taken on the Congress and the CBI and in a second acerbic attack in last 24 hours has alleged the Centre of dirty designs but reiterated that he will not be intimidated by the “Delhi Sultanate”. Mr Modi was cheered up by the public in Palitana in Bhavnagar district when he spoke about the misuse of CBI and “Delhi Sultanate’s” dirty designs to undermine his government in Gujarat.