Geetha Johri has accused the CBI of pressurising her
In a new turn in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, senior Gujarat- cadre IPS officer Geetha Johri has accused the CBI of pressurising her to implicate some political leaders, including arrested BJP leader Amit Shah.
In a curative petition filed with the apex court, she has sought the removal of Balwinder Singh, CBI’s Special Director who is supervising the investigation into the case, and said he be made a witness in it.
Johri accused CBI of pressurising her to implicate some politicians, including Gujarat’s former minister of state for Home Amit Shah who has already been arrested in connection with the killing of Sheikh in a fake encounter with police in Ahmedabad in 2005.
Geeta Johri said the CBI had pressurised different police officers including her to name political figures like Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.
She says, when she did not oblige to this demand of the CBI, the investigative agency framed her in the case .
She has also debunked the CBI theory that the third person who was abducted along with Sohrabudin and Kausarbi was Tulsiram Prajapati.
Instead, Johri says that the third person travelling was Kalimudin, a PWG informer in Andhra Pradesh. She alleges that the AP police was shielding him.
She alleged she had been asked by CBI to depose in a particular manner in the case and that her personal assistant was threatened by CBI.
Seeking Balwinder Singh’s removal as supervisor of the probe into the case, Johri said in the petition that she herself had interrogated him in connection with the case when he was the Police Commissioner of Hyderabad in 2007.