January 12, 2010 11:48 AM

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SC orders CBI probe into Soharabuddin encounter case

The Narendra Modi government in Gujarat has suffered a setback with the Supreme Court directing a CBI probe into the 2005 Soharabuddin Sheikh encounter case.A bench of Justices Tarun Chatterjee and Aftab Alam in its verdict accepted the demand for the probe on the plea of the brother of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, who was allegedly killed in a fake encounter by the Gujarat Police.The Gujarat Government has been consistently maintaining that it's Special Investigation Team (SIT) was conducting the probe in an impartial manner. Sohrabuddin, along with his wife Kauser Bi and another person was picked up during a joint operation by the police of Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh on their way from Hyderabad to Sangli in Maharashtra on November 22, 2005.He was gunned down allegedly in a fake encounter by the Gujarat police's Anti-Terrorist Squad which claimed that he had come to the city to eliminate Chief Minister Modi.The accused cops are also alleged to have killed Soharabuddin's wife Kauser Bi and their accomplice Tulsi Ram Prajapati to destroy evidence.

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