Ahmedabad:The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team is likely to seek permission from its headquarters to question Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. According to television
reports, the investigating agency may want Modi to answer some questions in the
Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. The CBI wants to know if Modi was aware of the
attempts being made by top police officials to scuttle the probe. If Modi is summoned
for questioning, it will be for the second time this year. He was earlier questioned
by a Special Investigation Team in a Gujarat riots case. Earlier, the CBI has
summoned former Gujarat DGP P C Pandey for questioning in connection with the
case. CBI has called Pandey to appear before it on August 11. Pandey was DGP when
the state CID was investigating the fake encounter case. This is for the first
time Pandey has been called for questioning by the CBI. It had earlier called
other IPS officers, including G C Raigar and O P Mathur. On Wednesday, a three
member CBI team posed 32 questions before former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah.
He was grilled inside the Sabarmati jail premises. According to sources, Amit
Shah kept saying, "I don't know and I have never been to these places." The Supreme
Court handed over the fake encounter case to CBI in January this year. The investigating
agency has so far arrested Amit Shah, IPS officer Abhay Chudasama and owners of
Arham farm Rajendra Jirawala in the case. Shah was arrested on Sunday and sent
to judicial custody till August 7. The CBI has filed a 30,000-page charge sheet
against Shah, accusing him of complicity in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.
Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausar Bi were killed in an alleged fake encounter in
2005.
