AMN / MUMBAI
The Bombay High Court on Monday asked the CBI to submit a list of police officers whose discharge from the Sohrabuddin Shaikh encounter case has been challenged, and the roles ascribed to them in the charge sheet.
Justice Revati Mohite-Dere also said that she would hear the petitions filed by Shaikh’s brother Rubabuddin Shaikh and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging the discharge of some of the accused on a daily basis.
“Give a chart…containing the names of those whose discharge has been challenged, the charges and sections imposed by the CBI (against them) in the charge sheet,” the judge said.
The hearing will begin from February 9.
Rubabuddin has filed revision applications challenging the trial court orders between August 2016 and August 2017 discharging IPS officers D G Vanzara (retired), Rajkumar Pandiyan, and Dinesh M N from the case.
The trial court discharged 15 of the 38 people named by the CBI in its charge sheet during this period.
On November 23, 2005, local gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh, his wife Kausarbi and his trusted lieutenant Tulsiram Prajapati were travelling on a Hyderabad-Sangli bus when they were allegedly abducted by a team of policemen and members of a special task force.