Ahmedabad:
The Gujarat High Court is expected to deliver its verdict on the petition filed by former Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah challenging the rejection of his bail plea by a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court today.
Amit Shah was arrested by the CBI in connection with the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case on July 25.
He had filed a bail petition in the CBI court last month which was rejected.
In his petition before the High Court, Shah had alleged that the CBI had framed him and there was no evidence to implicate him in the case.
The CBI counsel KTS Tulsi had during the hearing submitted that Shah was the mastermind in the fake counter case and was also part of a larger extortion racket.
Apart from Shah more than a dozen policemen are in jail in connection with the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.
Sohrabuddin, an alleged gangster, was killed on the city's outskirts in November 2005 in a staged shoot out by Gujarat and Rajasthan Police. Later, his wife Kauser Bi was also murdered.