Ahmedabad:
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) R K Patel, whom the CBI has named as one of the 20 accused in its chargesheet in Tulsi Prajapati fake encouter case, moved to Gujarat High Court on Tuesday seeking an anticipatory bail.
Justice Sonia Gokani, on the request of advocate Kirtikant Nanavati, who appeared for Mr Patel, adjourned the hearing till tomorrow.
On September 4, 2012, the CBI had filed a chargesheet in the Magisterial court of Danta, Banaskantha naming former Minister of State for Home and close aide of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah among 20 accused in the case.
Former state police chief P C Pande, IPS officers O P Mathur, D G Vanzara and Geetha Johri and R K Patel were also named in the chargesheet submitted in the court of judicial magistrate D R Joshi.
"I have enough reasons to believe that I will be arrested. I have not been served with either a FIR or a chargesheet implicating me and my reasons to believe that I will be arrested are only based on the front-page news in one of the respectable daily newspapers," Mr Patel said in his petition.
Mr Prajapati, an eye-witness in the encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, was allegedly killed in a fake encounter by Gujarat police at Chhapri, in Banaskantha district on December 28, 2006.
Mr Patel, who is presently a DySP, Sarkhej Division, Ahmedabad (Rural), was the investigating officer in the Prajapati encounter case from September 29, 2007 to April, 2011, when it was being probed by the CID Crime, Gujarat.