CBI files third chargesheet in Tara Shahdeo torture case
RANCHI: The CBI on Friday furnished chargesheet in the third case lodged against Ranjeet Singh Kohli alias Raqibul Hassan Khan accused of duping his shooter wife, Tara Shahdeo, into marriage and coercing her to embrace Islam.
Kohli, in the third case, is charged with keeping and operating around 39 SIM cards under fake names.
Meanwhile, the Jharkhand high court on Friday granted bail to Kohli in this case. Kohli has been languishing at the Birsa Munda Central Jail since August, 2014, in all the three cases. He would not be released from jail as he is yet to get bail in other two cases.
The matter dates back to August, 2014, when Shahdeo had lodged an FIR with Ranchi’s Kotwali police station against her husband, Ranjeet Singh Kohli, and mother-in-law Kausal Rani alleging that they tortured her for not embracing Islam. She had alleged that Kohli enjoyed close connections with high profile people including some legislators, judicial officers and executives.
On the basis of Shahdeo’s disclosures and Kohli’s phone call details, the police had lodged two more FIRs.
After the Jharkhand high court’s intervention, the CBI took over the investigation of all the three cases in 2015.
On Friday, the probe agency furnished chargesheet against Kohli in a special CBI court disclosing that he had purchased 39 SIM cards and 15 mobile phones on the basis of fake and forged documents.
These mobile phones and SIM cards were purchased under fake names which include Ranchi residents Poonam Singh, Dileshwar Yadav, Phoolmani Toppo, Awadesh Kumar, Rahul Rana and others.
The CBI, in the chargesheet, submitted that the investigation in this case was still continuing and more revelations were expected in the times to come.
CBI furnished a list of 20 witnesses to prove this case.