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Banaskantha:
Four Rajasthan Police personnel, accused in the death of Tulsiram
Prajapati, a key witness in the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin
Sheikh, were arrested after they surrendered in the Danta court here
today.
ASI Narayansingh Chauhan, constables
Dalpatsingh Rathod, Kartarsingh Jat and Yuddhveersingh Rajput,
posted at Udaipur were sent to judicial custody by chief judicial
magistrate S S Joshi.
According to deputy SP R K Patel, investigating officer in the
Prajapati encounter case, the four men were shown as absconding
accused in the case in the charge sheet filed last month by the
state CID probing the case. Their remand would be sought at a later
stage, he said, adding with their arrest total number of accused
arrested in the case has reached 13.
Prajapati was allegedly killed by Gujarat Police in an encounter
near Ambaji in Danta taluka here when he tried to escape from
custody while being shifted from Rajasthan in December 2006.
The key accused in the case include
IPS officers D G Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandiyan, Dinesh M N and Vipul
Agarwal, along with five lower ranking cops, who are facing charges
of criminal conspiracy, murder, kidnapping, destruction of evidence
and forgery.
The charge sheet said Vanzara, range DIG at that time, and Dinesh,
who was SP of Udaipur, had conspired to kill Prajapati but it does
not throw light on the motive behind the conspiracy.
Vanzara, Dinesh and Pandiyan are also
accused in the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin and murder of his wife
Kausar Bi.
For interrogation, the CID had got transfer warrant of Vanzara and
Dinesh M N, who were lodged in the Sabarmati central jail in
Ahmedabad, however, they are yet to take custody of Pandiyan.
According to the charge sheet filed
last month, ASI Narayansingh and constable Yuddhaveersingh from
Udaipur took Prajapati to Ahmedabad in connection with a criminal
case on December 26, 2005.
On the same day after the court proceedings were over, they departed
along with Prajapti back for Udaipur about 11 pm by Udaipur Mail
from Ahmedabad, it said.
As per plan the escorting cops filed a
fake complaint with the railway police station outpost in
Himmatnagar in the wee hours on December 27, 2005, which said that
two unidentified persons had on gun-point managed to escape with
Prajapati near Raygadh railway station, it said.
Later Prajapati was imprisoned at some unidentified location before
he was taken to Chhapri village near Ambaji with his hands tied on
December 28, 2005, in a private car.
Another accused, the then ASI Ashish
Pandya who was present there shot from an unlicensed pistol on the
bonnet of jeep and later shot himself in the arm to establish that
Prajapati had opened fire, the charge sheet said.
Meanwhile, Narayansingh and Yuddhaveersingh fired at Tulsiram who
died on the spot. Later a report of firing for self protection was
filed with Ambaji police station at 8.15 am the same day.
The charge sheet said all the while from December 25 to 28 Vanzara,
Pandiyan, Aggarawal and Dinesh were in contact with each other on
mobile phones.
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