{"id":306736,"date":"2018-12-07T09:06:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T09:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306736"},"modified":"2018-12-07T09:06:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T09:06:20","slug":"sohrabuddin-sheikh-encounter-case-cbi-court-to-deliver-verdict-on-december-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sohrabuddin-sheikh-encounter-case-cbi-court-to-deliver-verdict-on-december-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case: CBI court to deliver verdict on December 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-306737 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/fake-encounter-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/fake-encounter-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/fake-encounter.jpg 371w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A special CBI court in Mumbai will pronounce its verdict in Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case on December 21.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sohrabuddin Sheikh, a gangster with alleged terror links, and his wife Kausar Bi were killed in an alleged fake encounter by the Gujarat Police in November 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tulsiram Prajapati an aide of Sheikh and eyewitness to the encounter was also later killed in another \u2018fake\u2019 encounter in December 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The trial\u00a0of 22 people accused of murder, abduction and destruction of evidence began in November last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had filed a case against 38 people, including then Gujarat home minister Amit Shah and senior police officials from Gujarat and Rajasthan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the special court in Mumbai had discharged BJP chief Amit Shah, former Gujarat anti-terrorism squad chief DG Vanzara and four police officers from Gujarat and Rajasthan, in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh encounter case.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special CBI court in Mumbai will pronounce its verdict in Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case on December 21. Sohrabuddin Sheikh, a gangster with alleged terror links, and his wife Kausar Bi were killed in an alleged fake encounter by the Gujarat Police in November 2005. Tulsiram Prajapati an aide of Sheikh and eyewitness to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1194,435,8729,8734],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306738,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306736\/revisions\/306738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}