The CID (Crime) on Monday filed a chargesheet in the metropolitan court against 13 police officials accused in the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Shaikh and disappearance of his wife Kausar Bi. The 700-page chargesheet primarily accuses the 13 officials of kidnapping, illegal confinement and murder of Shaikh and his wife Kausar Bi.

The chargesheet, which has statements of 190 witnesses, also points out that suspended DIG D G Vanjhara burnt the body of Kausar Bi in the presence of Deputy SP Narendra Amin and SP Raj Kumar Pandian on a dry river bed in Vanjhara’s native village Illol.

All the 13 officials have also been booked on charges of criminal conspiracy, creating false evidence, preparing false certificates and the Arms Act. Amin, who was earlier granted anticipatory bail by a Sessions court, has also been included as one of the accused in the chargesheet on this ground. The chargesheet has been filed against D G Vanjhara, Raj Kumar Pandian, Dinesh M N, M L Parmar, N K Amin, Abdul Rehman Sheikh, N S Dabhi, B R Chaube, Shyam Singh Charan, Himanshu Singh, N D Chauhan, Ajay Parmar and Santram Sharma.

According to the chargesheet, on November 26, 2005, Shaikh was taken from Disha farmhouse near Gandhinagar, where he and his wife Kausar Bi were kept, and was killed in a staged encounter. On November 28, Kausar Bi was killed. The chargesheet states that on November 28, 2005, Vanjhara and SP Rajkumar Pandian travelled in a Zen from Disha farmhouse near Gandhinagar to a riverbank in Ilol. Their vehicle was followed by a jeep in which deputy SP Narendra Amin and Inspector Balakrishna Chaube were seated. The vehicle carried the body of Kausar Bi.

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