BJP MP and lawyer Ram Jethmalani on Tuesday accused the CBI of leaking to the media details of the chargesheet against former Gujarat minister Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin encounter case.
“The accused does not have the chargesheet but the media has it. This is the CBI’s design,” Mr Jethmalani, who is providing legal assistance to Mr Shah, alleged. He said excerpts of the chargesheet were being carried in newspaper reports everyday but Mr Shah had still not been provided with a copy. Mr Jethmalani further alleged that this was misuse of the CBI and was improper. “I condemn it... CBI is holding press conferences,” he said.
The senior lawyer said that the court had ordered that a copy of the chargesheet be handed over to Mr Shah. Mr Jethmalani had rushed to Ahmedabad on Monday, soon after taking oath as a BJP Rajya Sabha MP from Rajasthan, to represent Mr Shah, who is lodged in Sabarmati jail. He had told the court that they had no problem with the interrogation of the BJP leader but demanded that the entire questioning be recorded. The court had directed that Mr Shah’s interrogation should be video recorded.