From star Dalit student to controversial cop

However,it’s not the first controversy that the doctor-turned-cop finds himself in. Amin is believed to have fired a few rounds from his service revolver in the 2004 encounter that killed alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba operatives Ishrat Jahan and Javed Pillai. A magisterial probe found that the encounter was fake,and the families of the victims have been demanding that the incident be probed by the CBI.

As part of the police team probing the murder of former minister of state for Home Haren Pandya,Amin had gone to Hyderabad to arrest Maulana Nasiruddin in October 2004. When Maulana’s family members and supporters protested,Amin had opened fire,killing a youth on the spot.

Earlier,in April 2000,Amin had been booked for the custodial death of Colonel (retd) Pratap Save of Umbergaon,who had been leading an agitation against a private port being built by a multinational. A magisterial court in Valsad had issued an arrest warrant against Amin in the case.

Since his arrest in the Sohrabuddin case,Amin has claimed a threat to him from fellow police officers and co-accused. On May 18,2010,he told the CBI court that there was a police-politician-criminal nexus in the case.

During arguments before the court,he has demanded the arrest of fellow police officer Geetha Johri,noting that she had been indicted by the Supreme Court for not carrying out the probe properly. In fact,it was during investigations by Johri that Amin was made an accused on the basis of a statement by Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) driver Nathuba Jadeja. Jadeja had told Johri during questioning that Amin was present on the spot where Kausar Bi’s body was burnt and disposed of.

Earlier,in July 2009,Amin had written to the Ahmedabad Police Commissioner urging him to register a criminal complaint against Raj Kumar Pandian,a suspended IPS official imprisoned in Sabarmati jail in the Sohrabuddin case. Amin had alleged that Pandian had made a bid on his life. The charge could not be proved. He had also accused then IG (Prisons) Keshav Kumar of torturing him in jail.

In December 2008,Amin had submitted an affidavit to Principal Additional Sessions Judge P B Desai,alleging that a plot was being hatched to kill him in jail because he was privy to vital information in the case,and claimed to possess CDs containing “explosive information”.