First Cop gets bail in Sohrabuddin fake encounter case
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- Saturday, 03 March 2012 21:05
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Gujarat Global News Network, New Delhi
The Supreme Court granted bail to suspended PI V A Rathod in the the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. He will be the first cop to come out of jail in last five years after the Supreme Court granted him bail on Friday.Â
The apex court granted bail on the condition of furnishing a surety of Rs 30,000 and other conditions to be laid down by the trial court. The division bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai granted bail after hearing the impleadment plea by suspended DIG and co-accused D G Vanzara and the state government.
It has also come to light that the CBI is considering him an important witness. Earlier agency CID (crime) too treated him as a witness, but coaccused including Vanzara took objection to it and moved court seeking his arraignment on basis of chargesheet delineating his role.
Rathod was arrested soon after the Gujarat high court ordered CID (crime) to make him an accused. Rathod was facing charges of destruction of evidence by transporting wood to burn Kauserbi’s body in Ilol village in Sabarkantha district on November 29, 2005.
For CBI, Rathod is the only eyewitness of disposal of Kauserbi’s dead body, since no other evidence regarding her killing has come on record. Besides, Rathod, two constables – Ajay Parmar and Santram Sharma were also made witnesses in the case by CBI and recommended their discharge.Â
A total of 15 cops, from Rajasthan and Gujarat, including four IPS officers, are behind bars. Four persons apart from cops have been arraigned in this case.Â
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