The Dara Singh conspiracy did not end with the fake encounter on October 23,2006,but continued for weeks afterwards,the CBI believes. Sources in the agency said they had evidence to show that former cabinet minister and BJP leader Rajendra Singh Rathore,who was arrested on Thursday,not only planned the incident,but stalled every attempt by Singhs family to register a complaint,along with Additional Director General of police (ADG) A K Jain. The latter is in judicial custody. When there were signs of an agitation against him in Churu,Rathore took every step to dissipate this agitation and also tried to ensure that Singhs widow Sushila Devi was not able to approach the judiciary, said an official. The CBI believes Rathore continued his damage-control efforts for months after the encounter. The chargesheet against Rathore filed on Thursday,said sources,also states that he forced people to abide by his diktats by giving examples of the fake encounter. It reportedly includes oral,documentary and digital evidence against the BJP leader. About the Jain link,sources in the CBI said that the police officer who headed the Special Operations Group (SOG) sat on Sushila Devis petition to the then BJP government to probe the incident for weeks. Also,call records clearly indicate that Jain was in touch with the SOG throughout the encounter and Rathore was in contact with him all along, the official said. They stayed in touch later too. While the preliminary chargesheet against Jain and 15 other police personnel was filed in June 2011,Rathores arrest and chargesheet came almost a year later. CBI officials said they moved to arrest Rathore only after gathering enough evidence. Rathores son Parakaram Singh,however,has questioned this evidence and claims his father was being implicated due to political rivalry. Call records cannot be called proof,he said,as Rathore had telephoned Jain in his capacity as a core member of the team appointed by then chief minister Vasundhare Raje Scindia to sort out a farmer crisis in Sriganganagar district. The CBI has not put on record outgoing call details of Jain. whether he made subsequent calls to his team-mates immediately after talking to my father,giving them orders to kill Dara Singh, said the 30-year-old Parakram,a businessman. In October 2006,my father made 3,600 calls,out of them four were to Jain. He was also minister of parliamentary affairs then and his job required him to interact with police officers. How can the CBI infer that the four calls he made to Jain were to give orders to kill Dara Singh? he said. Parakram also doubed the statement of witnesses submitted by the CBI,who all said Dara Singh feared for his life from Rathore. He said the statements were identical,with the same set of words and sentences. The statements recorded under Section 161 of the CrPC by different police officers at different points of time have the same typing and factual errors. For example,the name Virendra Singh is repeatedly written as Virendra Singh Singh in the statements of at least six witnesses. They even have the same paras and word count, he said. He also dismissed the CBI allegation that Rathore favoured a rival liquor smugglers group headed by Virender Singh Nangli,who was arrested in 2003 and acquitted in 2006. Had my father supported Nangli,why would his wife contest an election against my father in 2008? Though my father won from Tranagar constituency,she also secured 12,000 votes,which could have changed the poll results entirely, Parakaram said.
