The Supreme Court today sought response of CBI on the plea of IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian, seeking relaxation in his bail barring him from leaving Mumbai during pendency of trial. Pandian is accused in the alleged fake encounter killings of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauserbi.
A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and P C Pant issued notice to the investigating agency on Pandian’s plea, also seeking permission to go to Gujarat.
The court had last month allowed the accused officer to visit his ailing mother in Ahmedabad for seven days.
Pandian, who was granted bail on March 28 last year, is facing charges in the case in which Sheikh and his wife were allegedly abducted by Gujarat’s Anti-Terrorist Squad from Hyderabad and killed in a suspected fake encounter near Gandhinagar in November 2005.