Cong ‘misused’ CBI to frame Shah: Thakur

The then central government led by Congress party misused CBI to frame Amit Shah in an attempt to destroy his political career

JAI RAM THAKUR, HP chief minister

SHIMLA : Himachal Pradesh chief minister Jai Ram Thakur on Wednesday said Congress party had ‘misused’ Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to frame Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.

“The clean chit given by special CBI court to Amit Shah and others in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case has exposed the real face of the Congress,” Thakur said while talking to media here on Wednesday.

He further added,“the then central government led by Congress party misused CBI to frame Amit Shah in an attempt to destroy his political career. But truth prevailed and a special CBI court of Mumbai on 28 December 2018 cleared all the accused in this case as there was no evidence against them.”

On December 28, judge S J Sharma, in his judgment on the case, said that the CBI had presented “a pre meditated theory and a script intended to anyhow implicate political leaders. And the agency there after nearly did what was required to reach that goal rather than conducting an investigation in accordance with law”.

Thakur said the Congress had been ‘favouring terrorists and such shameful acts are not in the interest of the nation’.

In 2005, Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausar Bi were killed in alleged fake encounters by a joint team of Gujarat and Rajasthan police, while Prajapati was killed in another encounter a year later.

The CBI took over the case from the CID in 2010, with Special CBI public prosecutor BP Raju submitting that most of the evidence in the case was collected by the CBI. Raju also said that the prosecution was hampered because 92 witnesses turned hostile.