Amit Jethva murder case: HC judge recuses from hearing plea for security to trial court judge

Ahmedabad | Tuesday | 25th September, 2018

Summary:

Solanki was given clean chit by the DCB following which Bhikhabhai moved the High Court for further probe. The High Court had ordered CBI probe and Solanki was arrested in 2013 from Delhi and was chargesheeted. A judge of the Gujarat High Court on Monday recused himself from hearing a petition filed by father of RTI activist Amit Jethva, seeking protection for the principal session judge who is presiding over his son’s murder trial. Sources, however, said that the authorities have not given the judge any security “since there was no threat to his life”. In his petition, Bhikhabhai also stated how after 105 out of a total of 195 witnesses turned hostile, the High Court had ordered retrial of the case..