The Gujarat High Court has granted bail to former minister of state for Home Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. The court granted the bail on Friday about three months after he was arrested by the CBIJustice R H Shukla granted the bail to 46-year-old Shah on a personal bond of 1 lakh Rupees. He also put a condition that he will have to appear before the CBI's Mumbai office every month as the case is registered there.The court rejected the demand of the CBI to grant three weeks stay on the bail order as the agency wanted to appeal against the verdict.Shah's lawyer Nirupam Nanavati assured the court that his client would comply with all the terms and conditions of the bail and also any additional terms which the CBI would like to impose.Shah was arrested by the CBI on July 25 and lodged in the Sabarmati jail. Shah, a close aide of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, has been described by the CBI as the “kingpin” of the conspiracy leading to the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in November 2005 and killing of two key witnesses, Soharabuddin's wife Kausarbi and his close aide Tulsiram Prajapati. Earlier, a CBI court had rejected the bail application of Shah.
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