The Supreme Court on Monday set aside a trial court order granting anticipatory bail to N K Amin, DSP, CID, Gujarat Police. Amin is one of the accused in the killing of Kausar Bi, wife of fake encounter victim Sohrabuddin Sheikh.

During the course of the hearing the amicus curiae brought it to the notice of the court that Kausar Bi was secretly taken to Arham Farm by Amin before being killed.

Revealing this before the Bench of Justices Tarun Chatterjee and P K Balasubramanyan, Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium pointed to an application filed by G B Padheria, Deputy Superintendent of Police, CID Crime, which stated that Kausar Bi was taken from Deesha farm to Arham Farm and that she was murdered there.

The application was filed before the trial court for seeking remand of Amin barely 20 days after he was granted anticipatory bail on June 8, 2007. “However the said Arham Farm and her murder there are not reflected in the chargesheet,” Subramanium said.

Seeking directions to the police to file a fresh chargesheet considering the lacunae in the present one, the amicus submitted that the CID, which did not challenge Amin’s anticipatory bail, had also not moved a higher court against rejection of its plea to conduct narco analysis tests on the three police officers, including DGP Vanzara.

Like the amicus, the counsel for Sohrabuddin’s brother Rubabuddin asked why despite a Supreme Court order the police had failed to investigate the identity of the seven police personnel from Andhra Pradesh.