Ahmedabad: Former Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah is being questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inside Sabarmati Jail over the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter.
CBI officer Amitabh Thakur and other officials along with their lawyer are part of the team constituted to quiz Shah. The questioning began at around 10:30 am on Wednesday morning.
Shah is likely to be questioned about his role in the death of Sohrabuddin and his wife, Kauser Bi and to what extent was he involved in the conspiracy to abduct and kill the couple. The CBI will also grill him on whether he had a role to play in the killing and disposing off the body of Kauser Bi. In all the CBI has a list of 32 main questions for Shah.
Shah will also face some tough questions on his alleged role in the destruction of vital evidence in the fake encounter case.
He could face some uncomfortable questions on how he abused his official position to reportedly sanction the fake encounters. The court had directed that Shah's interrogation should be video recorded.
The questions CBI is likely to ask Shah:
Why did Amit Shah threaten builder brothers Raman Patel and Dashrath Patel? Why was Shah's close aide paid over Rs 1 crore by the Patel brothers? Why did Amit Shah instruct arrested DCP Abhay Chudasama to bribe Sohrabuddin's family? Why did Shah direct several top cops to withhold information from the CBI? Did Shah instruct Vanzara to kill Kausar Bi? Was a deal with the Rajasthan marble lobby the motive behind Sohrabuddin fake encounter? Did Amit Shah use pressure tactics to scuttle state CID investigation? Was Geeta Johri promoted for going slow on the investigation? Why were accused officers transferred to key posts during and after Sohrabhuddin and Kausar Bi deaths? Was Narendra Modi aware of his actions?
Shah, a close aide of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, is facing murder, extortion and other charges in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case.
He resigned as minister of state for home in the Gujarat government on Saturday after a chargesheet was filed against him. The former minister was arrested on Sunday and sent to judicial custody till August 7.
The CBI's plan to nail Shah in the alleged staged encounter killing of Sohrabuddin partly rests on video recordings secretly prepared by two Ahmedabad-based builder brothers -- Raman Patel and Dashrath Patel -- of their conversation with the politician's associates.
The Patels recorded their conversation with Yashpal Chudasama and Ajay Patel, Shah's associates, in March and April this year after the CBI took over the investigation into the murders of Sohrabuddin and his wife Kauser Bi in November 2005.
The conversation in Gujarati between the four men in the video recordings accessed by CNN-IBN suggests that Shah's associates were desperate to get him off the hook.
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