Chargesheet filed against IPS officer,others in Prajapati case

Gujarat CID filed a chargesheet against seven policemen,including an IPS officer,in the 2006 Tulsiram Prajapati encounter case,in a court in Banaskantha district.

IPS officer Vipul Agarwal,who was the SP of Banaskantha when the encounter took place,is among those chargesheeted.

Prajapati,a key witness in the 2005 fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and alleged murder of his wife Kausar bi,was killed in an encounter in Chapri village near Ambaji in Banaskantha in December 2006.

The over 1000-page chargesheet includes statements of 137 witnesses too.

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In May this year,the agency had arrested Agarwal,who was posted as Dahod SP from Ahmedabad,constables Jathubha Solanki from Patan and Vinod Limbachiya from Palanpur.

Three other constables — Karansinh Sisodia,Kanji Kutchi and Kiransinh Chauhan — were also arrested subsequently from Siddhpur in Patan.

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