The Supreme Court has rejected CBI's plea to cancel the bail granted to former Gujarat minister Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case. However the Apex Court agreed to transfer the trial from Gujarat to Mumbai.

A bench comprising justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai also permitted Shah to enter and travel in Gujarat in view of the upcoming assembly elections.

CBI had approached the apex court against the bail granted to Shah by the Gujarat High Court in the case of fake encounter killing of gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh and for shifting the trial of the case to a place outside Gujarat.