Facing charges of murder, Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah, today resigned from the state ministry. Talking to newsmen on his arrival in New Delhi to attend the National Development Council meeting, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said, he has information that Amit Shah's resignation has reached his residence in Gandhinagar. He said on his return, he would accept it and complete the formalities.Asked by reporters whether the resignation amounted to accepting that Shah is guilty, Modi said he was accepting it because under the Constitution, certain formalities had to be fulfilled. He said Shah would fight the issue legally and expressed confidence that judiciary would provide justice to him.Shah's resignation comes a day after CBI charged him with kidnapping and murder of alleged gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauser Bi in November 2005. Though Shah has resigned, however, nothing is clear about his whereabouts. The CBI, which filed the chargesheet before a court in Ahmedabad, has already sent teams for arresting him after he refused to appear before an agency team by 1 pm deadline on Friday for questioning. The probe agency tightened the noose around Shah, who has been named as an accused along with 14 others, including some IPS officers in the chargesheet. The CBI probe was spread over five states–Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. Besides the murder charge, the other charges against all the 15 accused included criminal conspiracy, wrongful confinement, kidnapping and abducting to murder, extortion and destruction of evidence. Meanwhile, the Congress has said Shah’s resignation has come too late. AICC coordinator for Gujarat Rajiv Shukla said since Shah was involved in the case, he should have resigned much earlier. On the BJP's attack on the Congress and the Centre for allege misuse of CBI in the case, Rajiv Shukla said the investigation has been ordered by none other than the Supreme Court.