File photo of Amit Shah
New Delhi:
Two days after key Narendra Modi aide and Gujarat's former home minister Amit Shah was questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI in connection with the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, sources have told NDTV that he is likely to be questioned again.
Mr Shah was first questioned by the investigation agency on Saturday. His questioning comes ahead of the CBI preparing a supplementary chargesheet covering the conspiracy angle in the encounter case. Sources in the CBI had last week said the agency will soon declare that it has found no evidence of terrorist leanings of 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan.
In its first chargesheet, the CBI had accused seven senior policemen of murdering Ishrat and her three male companions in "cold blood" and of planting an AK-56 at the scene of the shooting to portray the victims as terrorists.
One of those officers, DG Vanzara, who was then Deputy Commissioner of the Ahmedabad Crime Branch, recently alleged that Mr Shah, as Home Minister when Ishrat was killed, was aware of the police's actions.
Mr Shah, an accused in the case, is currently out on bail and has been made the BJP's election campaign in-charge in Uttar Pradesh.
Today, the Samajwadi Party hit out at Mr Shah and his party by alleging that he was sent by the BJP to "destroy" Uttar Pradesh.
"If he is a crime accused, is being investigated by CBI and is on bail, then why is he being sent to destroy UP? ... The BJP is constantly trying to fuel communalism in UP," said Rajendra Chaudhary, spokesperson of UP unit of the Samajwadi Party.
The BJP, however, claims that the CBI has changed it stand on Ishrat Jahan and that the Congress is using the investigation agency against the opposition.
"CBI earlier said she is a terrorist, then changed its stand. It's not a clean chit agency. Its job is to prosecute. Now it seems to be taking up the role of judge as well. This amply shows how it's a mere tool in the hands of the Congress party that's used against its political opponents," said BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitaraman.
Mr Shah was first questioned by the investigation agency on Saturday. His questioning comes ahead of the CBI preparing a supplementary chargesheet covering the conspiracy angle in the encounter case. Sources in the CBI had last week said the agency will soon declare that it has found no evidence of terrorist leanings of 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan.
In its first chargesheet, the CBI had accused seven senior policemen of murdering Ishrat and her three male companions in "cold blood" and of planting an AK-56 at the scene of the shooting to portray the victims as terrorists.
One of those officers, DG Vanzara, who was then Deputy Commissioner of the Ahmedabad Crime Branch, recently alleged that Mr Shah, as Home Minister when Ishrat was killed, was aware of the police's actions.
Mr Shah, an accused in the case, is currently out on bail and has been made the BJP's election campaign in-charge in Uttar Pradesh.
Today, the Samajwadi Party hit out at Mr Shah and his party by alleging that he was sent by the BJP to "destroy" Uttar Pradesh.
"If he is a crime accused, is being investigated by CBI and is on bail, then why is he being sent to destroy UP? ... The BJP is constantly trying to fuel communalism in UP," said Rajendra Chaudhary, spokesperson of UP unit of the Samajwadi Party.
The BJP, however, claims that the CBI has changed it stand on Ishrat Jahan and that the Congress is using the investigation agency against the opposition.
"CBI earlier said she is a terrorist, then changed its stand. It's not a clean chit agency. Its job is to prosecute. Now it seems to be taking up the role of judge as well. This amply shows how it's a mere tool in the hands of the Congress party that's used against its political opponents," said BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitaraman.
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