Mumbai: Former police chief of Gujarat P.C. Pande had been discharged from the case relating fake encounter of Tulsiram Prajapati on Wednesday by a CBI court in Mumbai.
Tulsiram Prajapati was an aide of slain gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh, for want of mandatory sanction from the State Government for his prosecution.
Special CBI court judge MB Gosavi said, “For want of sanction, the charges against the accused P C Pande are dropped.”
The court had last month discharged BJP president Amit Shah in the Sohrabhddin Sheikh and Prajapati cases after holding that there existed “no case” against him and that he had been implicated for “political reasons.”
According to the CBI, Pande, a former Director General of Police of Gujarat, was involved in the conspiracy to bump off Prajapati, an eyewitness to the killing of Sohrabuddin in a staged encounter in 2005.
Sachin Pawar, advocate of Pande said, “We argued that Pande was only discharging his official duty and to prosecute him mandatory sanction from the government must be obtained.”
Bureau Report
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