Ahmedabad, July 16
Nearly two months after the Gujarat CID arrested three senior IPS officers in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, the investigating agency today filed a voluminous charge sheet against them and ten other policemen in a court here.
The CID team, headed by deputy superintendent of police Raju Bhargav, submitted the over 700-page charge sheet in a sealed cover in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate K J Upadhyay.
The charge sheet includes the evidence gathered during probe and the statements of over 170 witnesses. Copies of the charge sheet will be given to the accused tomorrow, prosecution sources said.
Those chargesheeted include DIG D G Vanzara, who headed the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) in 2005 and allegedly orchestrated the fake encounter, his deputy Rajkumar Pandian and Rajasthan cadre IPS officer Dinesh M N who is also a former head of Special Task Force (STF).
The others arrested include police officials of Gujarat ATS and Rajasthan STF. None of the accused was present in the court when the charge sheet was filed.
Sheikh, an alleged extortionist, was killed in a fake encounter by a joint team of Gujarat and Rajasthan police on the city outskirts in November 2005 and branded an operative of Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e Taiba.
— PTI
