Monday, November 29, 1999

Gujarat police accepts Prajapati encounter was fake

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Ahmedabad, May 4 (PTI) The Gujarat police has accepted as fake the encounter in which Tulsi Prajapati, a key witness in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh murder case, was killed, top state CID officials said. "We believed that his (Prajapati) encounter was fake. So, we investigated the case and found involvement of some police officers," CID crime chief V V Rabari told PTI. District Superintendent of Police (DSP) of Dahod and IPS officer Vipul Agarwal was arrested last night for his involvement in Parajapati''s encounter killing. Another constable from Banaskantha district police Vinod Choudhary was also arrested today in connection with the encounter case from Palanpur. Prajapati was killed by Gujarat police in an encounter near Ambaji in Banaskantha district when he tried to escape from custody while being shifted from Rajasthan to Gujarat in December, 2006, DIG I M Desai, supervising the case, said investigation was on and more arrests would be made as the probe progresses. The investigating officer in the case Dy SP R K Patel of CID said there were ten more persons involved in the case which include a police inspector Ashish Pandya who had actually fired the bullet that killed Prajapati. .

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