Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case: CBI court discharges Gujarat ex-IPS DG Vanzara

MUMBAI: A special CBI court on Tuesday discharged former Gujarat top cop DG Vanzara in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh alleged fake encounter case.
The court also discharged Dinesh MN, an IPS officer from the Rajasthan cadre. Their discharge comes two and a half years after BJP chief Amit Shah was granted similar relief in the case in 2014.
"Justice has been done by the judiciary," said Vanzara after the discharge.
Sohrabuddin was a gangster whom the Gujarat Police claimed had links with Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. Vanzara was arrested on April 24, 2007, along with two other IPS officers Rajkumar Pandian and Dinesh M N in Sohrabuddin's encounter case. He was granted bail in 2014> .
The CBI said Vanzara was from the start involved in a conspiracy to murder Sohrabuddin> . In its chargesheet, the CBI claimed Sohrabbudin and Kausar Bi were allegedly abducted by the Gujarat Anti Terrorism Squad from Hyderabad and killed in a fake encounter near Gandhinagar in November 2005.
Following a Supreme Court order, the trial was moved to a Mumbai court. Prajapati was an accomplice of Sohrabuddin's and was killed in a similar operation in 2006.
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