Investigator of Sohrabuddin, Prajapati killing cases now gets Ishrat encounter Ujjwala Nayudu

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Investigator of Sohrabuddin, Prajapati killing cases now gets Ishrat encounter
Ujjwala Nayudu

Ahmedabad : Special Crime Branch of Delhi CBI will supervise the
investigation by Mumbai SP Vinay Kumar

The investigation of the 2004 fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three
others has been handed over to CBI Superintendent of Police Vinay
Kumar, who is also probing into the alleged staged encounter killings
of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati.

"The Special Crime Branch (of CBI), Delhi will supervise the case and
the Mumbai SCB has been handed over the investigation. The
investigating officer in the Sohrabuddin-Tulsiram encounter cases was
replaced, and the same officer (Kumar) would probe into the Ishrat
case," a source in the CBI, Delhi told The Indian Express over the
phone.

A DIG rank officer from SCB Delhi will supervise the investigation.

Kumar was made the investigating officer of the Sohrabuddin and
Tulsiram encounter cases in April 2010 after the Supreme Court handed
over the Tulsiram case to the CBI.

Earlier, DIG P Kandswamy was supervising the Sohrabuddin case which
was being investigated by SP Amitabh Thakur of the Mumbai SCB.

Kumar, a 1997 batch IPS officer from Delhi, had earlier cracked the
fake encounter of a Haryana businessman who was shot dead at Connaught
Place in New Delhi in 1997.

Meanwhile, the Gujarat High Court-appointed Special Investigation Team
(SIT) — which has found the encounter of Ishrat and three others to be
fake — is likely to file a fresh FIR in the case on Monday.

"After the FIR is filed, there are more reports and records to be
handed over to the CBI. We are still preparing the case file for the
new agency and this would take us another 10 days to hand over the
probe to them completely," said a senior SIT member.

Sources said the CBI will have to re-investigate the entire case to
find out the motive and key men behind the killing of Ishrat, Javed
Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Zishan Johar and Amzad Ali Rana.

Besides, the agency is likely to investigate the reason and mode of
arrival of Ishrat and her aides to Gujarat, intelligence input which
reportedly said that Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists had entered the state
to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi, besides the credentials of the
two alleged Pakistani aides of Ishrat — Johar and Rana.