Johri doubted DySP,didn’t keep me in loop: Mathur to CBI

According to Mathur’s statements to the CBI,the issue had reached the then Principal Secretary (Home),who asked Johri and Padheria to resolve it on their own. Mathur also denied that DIG Rajnish Rai,who supervised the case later,had given him any CD containing the phone records of certain officers related to the case. Rai was the one who had arrested D G Vanzara and other IPS officers for their role in Sohrabuddin’s encounter.

Pandiyan’s driver,the fly on the wall

Nathubha Jadeja,the constable and the driver of Rajkumar Pandiyan,had retracted from his statement given to CID (Crime) when the state agency was probing the case under the directions of the Supreme Court. In his statement recorded on April 26,2007 by CID (Crime),Jadeja elaborated various incidents like abduction of Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausar Bi,firings by certain officers of Gujarat and Rajasthan cadre at midnight on November 26,2005 on Narol Highway in Ahmedabad prior to alleged encounter of Sohrabuddin,disposal of Kausar Bi’s body and the fact that her body was cremated by D G Vanzara in Ilol of Sabarkantha district in the presence of certain officers of Gujarat ATS.

While retracting before a magisterial court in Ahmedabad later,Jadeja said he was coerced to give the statement to implicate police officers in the case by the then supervisory officer,DIG Rajnish Rai.

Shah transferred me when I didn’t toe line: Raiger

In another such statement to CBI as witness,retired IPS officer G C Raiger has said he was transferred from the CID (Crime) by the then Minister of State (Home) Amit Shah when he did not follow his illegal instructions in the Sohrabuddin encounter case. Raiger said he was transferred to the Karai Police Training College by Shah and was not even given a chance even to pack his bags. He was then replaced by O P Mathur as the chief of CID (Crime).