Even as the CBI on Friday sought the Supreme Court's permission to take over the investigation of the Tulsi Prajapati encounter case,the state CID (Crime) filed a 1000-page chargesheet in Danta court in the same case,which is silent on the motive behind the killing and the role of former minister Amit Shah and the police officers arrested in connection with the Sohrabuddin encounter case. So far,the state police have sought to de-link the Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram Prajapati encounter cases and accordingly,the chargesheet filed in the judicial magistrate S S Joshi's court names only seven - IPS officer Vipul Agarwal and six others. But it does rely on two CDs submitted by IPS officer Geetha Johri,which have call details of some officials after Prajapati,a key witness in the Sohrabuddin encounter case,was killed in an encounter. While investigating the Sohrabuddin case,Johri had asked investigating officer V L Solanki to question Prajapati,who was in a Rajasthan jail at that time. But since he was killed,she collected the phone call records. All seven named in the chargesheet have been charged with criminal conspiracy,kidnapping,murder and destroying evidence. The CID chargesheet also relies on FSL,medical records,circumstantial evidence and videography of the reconstruction of events,including the two CDs and statements of 137 witnesses. Prajapati was killed in an encounter in Chapri village near Ambaji in Banaskantha in December 2006. The CID has so far questioned D G Vanzara and Dinesh M N,both arrested in the Sohrabuddin case. Their names find mention in the chargesheet in the Prajapati encounter case,though not as accused. CID Crime DySP R K Patel said names of more accused will follow in a supplementary chargesheet to be filed in ten days. The chargesheet details how Vipul Agarwal,the then Banaskantha SP,was in touch with Vanzara and recalled key accused Ashish Pandya,the SOG policeman,from his leave to carry out the encounter. Pandya's role has allegedly been established by the FSL report. According to the chargesheet,Pandya had picked up Prajapati from Ahmedabad railway station,confined him for some time in Palanpur on the instructions of Vanzara and Agarwal before shooting him dead with help from two Rajasthan policemen around 4.30 am. An hour later,Agarwal was at the Danta police station,where Pandya had called him on landline and informed that Prajapati was dead,says the chargesheet. The chargesheet rebuts the police theory that Prajapati was shot while trying to escape from the police custody while on train. Dinesh M N also reportedly admitted to the CID that he had not sourced the details of any phone call records of Rajasthan policemen as he was ordered not to do so after Prajapati's encounter.
