New Delhi: The Gujarat government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it has submitted all the relevant call details pertaining to the police officers involved in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing the case.
While hearing the case, the two-judge bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai observed that Andhra Pradesh police angle and call records are the area in which the CBI investigation has been deficient.
Former solicitor general and amicus curiae Gopal Subramaniam, who is assisting the court in the case, told the court that the CBI Director should be made responsible for this case. Subramaniam also argued that that the bail given to former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah is unsupportable and the case should not be transferred out of Gujarat.
On December 1, the Andhra Pradesh government was criticised by the Supreme Court for protecting its police officials who were allegedly present at the site where Sohrabiddin Sheikh was killed in a fake encounter.
Justice Alam and Justice Desai said that there is a "deliberate attempt" on the part of Andhra Pradesh not to provide information to the CBI which is investigating the case.
"There is a deliberate attempt to suppress information," the bench observed while pointing out that the register which records the movement of the police officials was not supplied to the probe agency.
Andhra Pradesh police officials had said that the register, recording the duty of its officials who were present at the site, was missing.
The court's remark came after Subramanium submitted that the investigating agency has failed to identify the Andhra Pradesh police officials who were alleged to be involved in the fake encounter.
On the apex court decision to hand over the case to the CBI which was earlier probed by the Gujarat police, he said, "The state had failed to discharge its constitutional duty".
(With additional information from PTI)
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