AHMEDABAD: Former Gujarat minister Amit Shah, who was missing after being charged with murder and extortion in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, dramatically surfaced at a BJP media briefing here on Sunday.
Presenting a point-to-point defence, Shah said he was being framed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and was being presented as a goon by the agency.
"All the allegations against me are politically motivated and fabricated. None of the allegations are true," Shah told reporters. "It is a conspiracy against the BJP and a Congress government motivated move," he added. The former minister was not seen in public for two months.
"I am going straight to the CBI office from here. I haven't got the chargesheet copy, but from the contents which are coming in the media... (I want to say that) the accusations against me are fabricated, politically motivated and framed on the behest of the Congress government," Shah said.
Hitting out at the CBI, Shah said the haste on part of the agency proves that the chargesheet was premeditated. Shah said that he could not respond to the summons by the CBI due to paucity of time. "I received the CBI summons at 11 am to appear at 1 pm on July 22," Shah said.
The 2,000-page CBI chargesheet says Shah had entrusted the task of eliminating Sohrabuddin, an alleged gangster, to IPS officers DG Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandian and Abhay Chudasama. Sohrabuddin was killed in an encounter near Ahmedabad on November 26, 2005. Later, Shah allegedly ordered elimination of Sohrabuddin's wife, Kauserbi, described as a witness to her husband's slaying.
Fourty-six-year-old Shah, who had tendered his resignation to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, said he will fight against the conspirators. "I have full faith in the judiciary and I am sure the allegations against me will be cleared by the courts," he said demanding that his entire questioning by the CBI should be video-graphed.
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