Prajapati encounter: CBI questions suspended IPS officer,four others in jail

The CBI on Friday questioned suspended IPS officer Vipul Aggarwal and four other policemen lodged in Palanpur Sub-Jail in Banaskantha district in connection with the Tulsiram Prajapati encounter case.

The CBI on Friday questioned suspended IPS officer Vipul Aggarwal and four other policemen lodged in Palanpur Sub-Jail in Banaskantha district in connection with the Tulsiram Prajapati encounter case. Aggarwal,who was Banaskantha SP at the time of the 2006 encounter,is an accused in the case.

A Danta court had recently granted CBI the permission to question Aggarwal,then Sub-Inspector Ashish Pandya and three other policemen who were with Banaskantha Special Operations Group in 2006.

CBI sources claimed Aggarwal has provided them a lot of information about the involvement of top politicians and officials from Gujarat and Rajasthan in the encounter killing of Prajapati,who was said to be a key witness to the encounter killing of gangster Sohrabuddin in 2005.

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The State CID (Crime),which probed the Prajapati case before CBI took over,had arrested Agarwal from Dahod where he was serving as SP. Later,Pandya,who allegedly pulled the trigger on Prajapati,surrendered to the CID and the arrests of three other policemen followed.

The CBI also plans to question four policemen from Rajasthan who had surrendered to CID (Crime).

Prajapati,a close aide of Sohrabuddin,was killed in the forests of Chapri on December 26,2006 in a joint operation by Banaskantha SOG and Rajasthan Police.

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