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Death Of Sohrabuddin Sheikh
The Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case was a criminal case in the Gujarat state after the death of Sohrabuddin Anwarhussain Sheikh on November 26, 2005. A special CBI court acquitted all the 22 accused in the case in the alleged encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife. Apart from being involved in the criminal extortion racket in Gujarat, Sheikh was also involved in arms smuggling in Madhya Pradesh, and also had murder cases registered against him in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Sheikh was also claimed by the police to be associated with the banned global terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Pakistani intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence, and was alleged to have planned to create communal chaos in the state by assassinating "an important political leader". Although the target of Sheikh's plans has never been officially revealed, the impression was given to political effect that it was to have been Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. Sheikh's wife K ...
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Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad ( ; Gujarati: Amdavad ) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per the 2011 population census) makes it the fifth-most populous city in India, and the encompassing urban agglomeration population estimated at 6,357,693 is the seventh-most populous in India. Ahmedabad is located near the banks of the Sabarmati River, from the capital of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, also known as its twin city. Ahmedabad has emerged as an important economic and industrial hub in India. It is the second-largest producer of cotton in India, due to which it was known as the 'Manchester of India' along with Kanpur. Ahmedabad's stock exchange (before it was shut down in 2018) was the country's second oldest. Cricket is a popular sport in Ahmedabad; a newly built stadium, called Narendra Modi Stadium, at Motera can accommodate 132,0 ...
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Tulsiram Prajapati Killing
Tulsiram Prajapati was a man, who was killed while in custody at 5 am on 26 December 2005. The case is widely believed to have been an encounter killing by the Gujarat Police. DIG D.G. Vanzara has been in jail for seven years, on charges of having organised this encounter, among others. On 8 April 2011, the Supreme Court of India directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take up the investigation. Arrests The case came into prominence in 2012, when the CBI, in its chargesheet, listed Gujarat home minister and leading BJP politician Amit Shah as the "kingpin and prime accused" in the case. Amit Shah was arrested in October 2012. Earlier, an unprecedented total of 32 police officers Himanshu Singh Rajawat, Shyamsingh Charan, Ashish Pandya , Yudhvir Singh, Kartar Singh, Narayansingh Chauhan, Jethasingh Solanki, Kanjibhai Kutchi, Vinodkumar Limbachiya Kiransingh Chauhan and Karansingh Sisodiya, Vijaykumar Rathod , including six IPS officers including D. G. Vanjara and ...
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Ishrat Jahan Case
The Ishrat Jahan case is an ongoing case where officers of the Ahmedabad Police Crime Branch and members of the Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB) of Ahmedabad are accused of fatally shooting four people unlawfully on 15 June 2004 in an " encounter killing". Several officials associated with the case, including those from Home Ministry and Intelligence Bureau, later accused the then UPA government of changing an affidavit for political gains. The Supreme Court decided in 2016 to hear a plea for quashing action against Gujarat police. Those killed in the incident were Ishrat Jahan Raza, a 19-year-old woman from Mumbra, Maharashtra, and three men – Javed Ghulam Sheikh (born Pranesh Pillai), Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar. The police claimed that Ishrat Jahan and her associates were Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives involved in a terroristic plot to assassinate the Chief Minister of Gujarat at that time Narendra Modi. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Special Inve ...
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Rajnish Rai
Rajnish Rai was a Deputy inspector general of police for the Indian Police Service. He began service after graduating with the 1992 cadre. In 2019 he joined the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad as an assistant professor. Rai is known for arresting fellow police officers D G Vanzara, R K Pandian, and Dinesh M N in connection with the 2005 death of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. These early claims put Rai in conflict with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. Later Rai would have conflicts with the government, including for his claims of corruption in the Jaduguda uranium mine, army killings of members of the National Democratic Front of Boroland, for accusing the government of harassing him, and for seeking early retirement from government service. Investigation of death of Sohrabuddin Sheikh Rai took orders from the Supreme Court of India to probe the 2005 death of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. On 27 April 2007 his investigation led to him arresting three Indian Police Service office ...
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Shrikant Khandalkar
Shrikant Khandalkar was a lawyer known for filing public interest litigation in India. He died Sunday 29 November 2015. On Sunday 29 November 2015 Khandalkar was found dead. Police determined that the death was a suicide. His body was injured after falling 8 stories from a window. He held a suicide note which explained that he had serious health problems. The lack of proper lighting in the courthouse was named as an explanation for why no one noticed the danger. ''The Hitavada'' reported that he was alive for some hours before he was able to go to the hospital, where he died. Khandalkar had been in conflict with various organizations over lawsuits, and this may have contributed to his poor condition. ''Nagpur Today'' described the death as mysterious. In 2019 a group of lawyers requested a probe into the deaths of Khandalkar, Brijgopal Harkishan Loya, and retired judge Prakash Thombre. These three were legal colleagues and all died in strange ways. Congress politician Kapil Sibal ...
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Brijgopal Harkishan Loya
Brijgopal Harkishan Loya (1966–2014) was an Indian judge who served in a special court which deals with matters relating to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He was presiding over the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case, and died on 1 December 2014 in Nagpur. A bench of the Supreme Court of India, headed by the Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, on April 19, 2018, dismissed the public interest petition (PIL), and stated the death to be natural and such petitions to be an attack on the Judiciary. History In June 2014, Loya was appointed to the special CBI court on the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case, after a previous judge, J. T. Utpat, was removed from the court. Unlike his predecessor, Loya allowed Amit Shah, the national leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who had been accused of ordering the murder of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, to be exempt from appearing at the court in person, until the framing of charges, except when Shah was already in the state of Maharashtra, wh ...
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Himanshu Singh Rajawat
Himanshu is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Himanshu Asnora (born 1995), Indian cricketer * Himanshu Bhatt actor who plays Mrityunjay Viswa karma in the film ''Login'' * Himanshu Bisht (born 1996), Indian cricketer * Himanshu Chawla (born 1991), Indian first-class cricketer *Himanshu Dhanuka, Bengali film producer and distributor * Himanshu Gulati (born 1988), Norwegian politician representing the Progress Party * Himanshu Hari (born 1994), Indian cricketer *Gajendra Prasad Himanshu, veteran socialist leader from Bihar, India *Himanshu Jangra (born 2004), Indian footballer * Himanshu Khagta (born 1990), Indian photographer based in the Indian Himalayas *Himanshu Malhotra, Indian actor *Himanshu Malik, Indian actor, screenwriter and producer known for his works in Bollywood * Himanshu Mantri (born 1994), Indian cricketer * Himanshu Pandya, Indian academic, Vice Chancellor of Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India *Himanshu Parikh, Indian engineer *Himansh ...
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Amit Shah
Amit Anil Chandra Shah (born 22 October 1964) is an Indian politician currently serving as the Minister of Home Affairs since 2019 and the first Minister of Co-operation of India since 2021. He served as the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2020. He has also served as chairman of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) since 2014. He was elected to the lower house of Parliament, Lok Sabha, in the 2019 Indian general elections from Gandhinagar. Earlier, he had been elected as a member of the upper house of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, from Gujarat in 2017. Sworn in at the age of 54, he is the youngest serving full-time Home Minister. He is the chief strategist of the BJP and a close aide to Narendra Modi. During his college days, Shah was a member of the ABVP, the student wing of the RSS. At the age of 18, he secured a position in the ABVP and joined the BJP in 1987. Shah was first elected in Gujarat as the MLA for a seat partly covering Ahmedabad, Sar ...
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Ashish Pandya
Ashish Pandya is a Dy.SP in the Indian Police Service, in the state of Gujarat. He came to prominence in the media as the leader of the police force accused of a encounter in the Tulsiram Prajapati killing. Pandya had fired the bullet which killed Prajapati in December 2006. The discussion about the case described that Pandya managed the logistics or led the encounter with Prajapati. In the legal statements witnesses reported that Pandya had discussed the case privately with DIG D. G. Vanzara, a senior police officer who was also a party to the case. When Pandya was sought for arrest he avoided police capture. The Criminal Investigation Department declared that Pandya had absconded. On 13 May 2010 he turned himself in to the police. In 2012 Pandya played the role of approver to the court by accusing other people in the case of faults. The court noted this in 2015 when various people arrested in the case made a request for bail. In May 2015 after Pandya got bail and left th ...
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Rajkumar Pandian
Rajkumar Pandian (RK Pandian) is an Indian Police Service officer. He came to attention over claims in the death of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. From 2016 he was Inspector-general of police in Junagadh, even while the Sohrabuddin case was in courts. In 2018 the Bombay High Court upheld his discharge from this case. Sohrabuddin case In 2007 Rajnish Rai arrested Pandian along with D G Vanzara and Dinesh M N related to the death of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. In March 2014 Pandian got bail after having been in prison for seven years since his 2007 arrest. In April 2013 ''The Hindu'' reported that Pandian was found to be at his home during the time when he was supposed to be incarcerated. The explanation seemed to be that Pandian was getting undisclosed and favored treatment to leave the jail. After 2014 In 2016 Pandian held a position at the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation. Following that position, he took a post as Inspector-general of police in Junagadh Junagadh () is the headquart ...
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Dinesh MN
Munganahalli Narayanaswamy Dinesh is an Indian Police Service officer from Karnataka who currently serving as Additional Director General of Police - Crime (ADG CRIME) . Dinesh is a 1995 batch Indian Police Service officer of the Rajasthan Cadre and serving as Additional Director General of Police in Anti Corruption Bureau, Rajasthan. He hails from Karnataka state. He served seven years in jail in the Sohrabuddin- Tulsiram Prajapati encounter cases. After his release in May 2014, he led ACB Rajasthan as IG to unearth major corruption racket in Mining department leading to arrest of 1983 batch IAS Officer Ashok Singhvi who was working as Mines Secretary. Also under his supervision as IG SOG Rajasthan, dreaded gangster Anand Pal Singh Anand Pal Singh (31 May 1975 – 24 June 2017) was an Indian gangster mainly active in the cities of Rajasthan. He was a most-wanted gangster with a reward of ₹10 lakh on his head. He was accused of multiple murders as well as extortion. H ...
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Geetha Johri
Geetha Johri is a retired officer of the Indian Police Service. She was the first woman from Gujarat to become an IPS officer. Johri retired as Gujarat’s police chief and was the highest ranked women officer in the state. She became DIG in 2017, replacing PP Pandey. Johri was the original investigator of the death of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. Jorhi graduated in the 1982 batch. In 1992 she raided the Dariapur hideout of criminal Abdul Latif. Latif escaped, but she arrested his gunman Sharif Khan. In 1998 she came into political conflict which resulted in her loss of opportunity. She was the investigator of the 2002 Gujarat riots The 2002 Gujarat riots, also known as the 2002 Gujarat violence, was a three-day period of inter-communal violence in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The burning of a train in Godhra on 27 February 2002, which caused the deaths of 58 Hin .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Johri, Geetha Indian women police officers Living people Year of birth ...
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