CBI court rejects bail plea of two senior cops in Sadiq Jamal fake encounter case

The CBI opposed their bail applications stating that the duo pumped several bullets into Sadiq in the fake encounter.

A special CBI court on Monday rejected the bail applications of two policemen who are lodged in Sabarmati Central Jail in connection with the Sadiq Jamal Mehtar encounter case. The duo had allegedly shot at Sadiq in a fake encounter in 2003 in Ahmedabad.

Special CBI judge MM Gandhi rejected the bail applications moved by accused Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) JG Parmar and Irshad Ali Saiyed (both retired). They had sought bail on the ground of parity with five co-accused who were recently granted bail by the same court and on the medical ground saying that they were suffering from multiple diseases. Their bail applications were based on the merit of the CBI investigation, claiming that the probe agency doesn’t have direct evidence against them.

The CBI opposed their bail applications stating that the duo pumped several bullets into Sadiq in the fake encounter. The CBI had said, “During the said stage-managed encounter, five rounds were fired by accused J G Parmar and six rounds were fired by co-accused Irshad Ali Saiyed. Two bullets were recovered from Sadiq Jamal’s body during post-mortem, one of the bullets had been fired from the service revolver of JG Parmar as opined by the ballistic experts.”

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Sadiq, who was killed in January 2003 in a fake police encounter, was branded as a terrorist who had plans to kill the then chief minister Narendra Modi and VHP leader Pravin Togadia to avenge 2002 post-Godhra riots.

Eight cops were chargesheeted in the case by the CBI while a further investigation is awaited that is likely to reveal names of several senior policemen from Gujarat and Mumbai.

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