In October 2009,the Supreme Court had dismissed a review petition filed on behalf of Dr Narendra Amin,one of the Gujarat police officers arrested in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. The petition was signed in the name of Amins wife Jayshree. Now,Jayshree Amin says she had never filed such a petition. She said on Thursday that she had,in fact,moved the Supreme Court after getting to know about it,alleging that someone had forged her signature and filed the petition after getting it attested by a notary public in New Delhi. In her plea,she had called the fraudulent review petition a conspiracy to keep her husband behind bars,demanded that this petition and the orders on it be quashed,and sought initiation of criminal proceedings against those behind it. Her petition is reportedly still pending before the Supreme Court. Dr Amin,incidentally,had declared an intention to turn approver in the case but backed off later,telling the CBI court here that he was being threatened with death,should he decide to go ahead. Jayshrees petition too had contended that the motive behind the review petition might have been to dissuade her husband from turning approver. On August 10,2010,Dr Amin too wrote to the CBI-SIT about the fraudulent petition. He said he suspected that the fraud may have been engineered by his seniors,jailed with him in the same case,besides a politician. Some of these men had not yet been arrested at the time the petition was moved,he wrote. Amin had worked as a gynaecologist before becoming a Dy SP with the Gujarat Police. After his arrest,he was granted bail by the Ahmedabad City Sessions Court in October 2007. The Gujarat High Court (HC) cancelled the bail in January 2008; Amin challenged the order in the Supreme Court,which turned down his appeal. This was when the review petition came up in the Supreme Court. Prepared on the vakalatnama of Supreme Court advocate Dharmendra Kumar Sinha,it was filed along with an affidavit purportedly signed by Mrs Amin,wife of Dr N. K. Amin and notarised by Delhi-based S L Gupta. The Supreme Court registry had raised some objections,one being that the review petition was not accompanied by a no objection from the lawyer who had appeared in the original appeal. The defective review petition was,however,sent to a three-judge bench of the SC to avoid inordinate delay.The bench,comprising Justices P Sathasivam,Aftab Alam and R M Lodha,dismissed the review petition on October 22,2009. The office report dated 18th August,2009,indicates that the review petition is defective and no steps have been taken to cure the same despite registrys letter dated 18th July,2009. Be that as it may,we have gone through the review petition and its connected documents. We do not see any reason to review our order 28th April,2008, the bench ruled. It was the next day that Jayshree Amin got to know of the petition,she told The Indian Express. She said she was shocked on reading the newspaper report about the order dismissing the petition. We were shocked to read it,since we had not moved any such petition.. Besides,how could I have signed the affidavit before the notary,when I was in Ahmedabad on the date the document was shown as notarised? she said. She said she moved a criminal writ petition before the Supreme Court in December 2009,terming the review petition fraudulent. Her petition is still pending,her husbands lawyer in Gujarat said. Jayshree Amin says before moving her petition,she had procured the documents relating to the review petition. In her petition,Jayshree has named as respondents the lawyer who moved the review petition as well as the notary who authenticated it,apart from the State of Gujarat and the CBI. She had also written to the registrar general of the Supreme Court seeking an inquiry and pointing out that the review petition was a serious mischief played on the SC. The assistant registrar replied on November 4,2009,saying that inter alia,in case the appellant has not authorised Mr Dharmendra Kumar Sinha.the appellant may,if so advised,proceed against him in accordance with law. According to Dr Amins lawyer in the Ahmedabad CBI court,Jagdish Ramani,the Supreme Court issued notices to Sinha and Gupta,but the matter remains pending as of now. Ramani said a complaint has also been lodged with the CBIs SIT to register a case in this regard. But the CBI does not seem to have taken any steps, he said. Dirty politics is being played in the entire case,and there are rivalries within the police force. But this was a huge conspiracy against my husband for sure. Only the court can get it unravelled, Jayshree Amin said.
