CBI likely to quiz 3 BJP leaders in Tulsi Prajapati fake encounter case
New Delhi: CBI is likely to question BJP Rajya Sabha MPs Prakash Javadekar, Bhupendra Yadav and party general secretary Ramlal who figured in a sting operation where they were purportedly discussed ways to influence the mother of the victim of Tulsi Prajapati fake encounter case.
In the sting operation, the leaders are purportedly shown discussing how Prajapati’s mother Narmadabai can be convinced to change her Vakalatnama. She has filed a case alleging her son was killed in a fake encounter.
However, BJP has claimed there is nothing “incriminating” against the three leaders in the sting operation. Meanwhile, CBI on Thursday questioned Rubabuddin, brother of another fake encounter victim Sohrabuddin Sheikh, a friend of Prajapati who was also killed in a fake encounter, in connection with allegations that senior BJP leaders had conspired to derail the probe in Prajapati’s extra-judicial killing in which former minister Amit Shah is an accused.
Prajapati, who was allegedly a witness to Sohrabuddin’s murder, was killed on December 2006–a year after Sheikh was shot dead in a fake encounter in Gujarat.
The journalist, who conducted the sting operation, had alleged senior BJP leaders managed to get undated blank ‘Vakalatnamas’ from Narmadabai to allegedly subvert the judicial proceedings.
