NEW DELHI/ AHMADABAD: (AMN) Imitating chief minister Narendra Modi style of wordings, the Rajkot Police Commissioner Geeta Johri has alleged that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is pressuring her to falsely implicate the former Gujarat Minister, Amit Shah. At the same time she did not appear before the CBI in Ahmadabad on Saturday.
“The Central Bureau of Investigation is pressuring me to falsely implicate the former Gujarat Minister, Amit Shah, in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case,” Geeta Johri has alleged in the Supreme Court.
The Rajkot police commissioner is currently being grilled over charges of damaging the probe to shield the state politicians.
In her petition before the Supreme Court, Johri said that the CBI asked her to support its "theories on the case with false testimony". She also sought the removal of Balwinder Singh, CBI’s special director, who is supervising the investigation into the case, and demanded that he be made a witness.
She also said that ever since the CBI began the probe it had started exerting pressure on Gujarat police officers, including her, to either name the political personalities, including Mr. Shah, or stand charged as accused in the killings of Sohrabuddin, his wife Kausar Bi and Tulsiram Prajapati, an accomplice of Sohrabuddin.
Meanwhile Johri did not appear before the CBI on Saturday. Her former boss and retired IPS officer O P Mathur, who was expected at the CBI office, also failed to turn up.
After CBI summons to him for a second time on July 26, Mathur was to appear before the agency at its Gandhinagar office but he had instead sent a letter that his mother was ill and he needed to attend to her. Mathur, who was the CID (Crime) chief during the Sohrabuddin case probe, was accused of tampering with the evidence collected by CID during its probe into the case.