Summary:
AHMEDABAD: The shadow of encounters may have lifted from Narendra Modi and Amit Shah , as the report of the special task force headed by Justice Bedi, which probed 17 encounters between 2002 and 2007 when Modi and Shah were at helm of Gujarat, has not named any top cops and politicians with no big names being recommended for trial. Shah’s indictment often led the critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to drag him into the controversy because he was the chief minister and held the cabinet portfolio of the home department in Gujarat. “If during the course of trial the evidence reveals that some others were also involved in any manner whatsoever, they too would be indicted and tried as per law,” the report said. Shah was later discharged by a CBI court. In the earlier probes into the encounters of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati, the probe agency, the CBI, had charged the then state home minister and present BJP national president Amit Shah for murder and conspiracy..