Amit Shah told to stay out of Gujarat till Nov. 29
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| Gujarat Minister Amit Shah waving to his supporters after his release from Ahmedabad Central Jail. The Supreme Court has ordered Shah to stay out of Gujarat till November 29 |
The Supreme Court on Wednesday told former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah to remain out of Gujarat till November 29 after he sought more time to respond to the Central Bureau of Investigation’s plea for his bail cancellation in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
A Bench of Justices Aftab Alam and R.M. Lodha while asking Mr. Shah to stay out of Gujarat granted him time till November 20 to file his response. They asked the CBI to file its rejoinder to the response by November 25 and posted the matter for further hearing to November 29.
The Bench passed the direction after senior counsel U.U. Lalit and counsel Bina Madhavan made an “impromptu mentioning” urging the court to grant additional time to file his response.
The Supreme Court earlier, during a special hearing in the residence of Justice Alam on October 30, had asked Mr. Shah to move out of Gujarat “till further orders” and had sought his response on the CBI’s plea for cancelling his bail.
It had asked Mr. Shah to file his response by November 12 and had originally listed the matter for further hearing to November 15.
The CBI had approached the Supreme Court on October 29 seeking cancellation of bail to Mr. Shah, granted by the Gujarat High Court a day earlier.
The CBI had sought urgent hearing of its plea, prompting the Supreme Court’s registry to arrange for the hearing on Justice Alam’s residence during Dussehra vacations.
The court had on October 30 directed Mr. Shah to leave Gujarat by the next morning, ordering him to stay out of the State till its further orders.
The special Bench had ordered Mr. Shah to leave the State after senior advocate K.T.S. Tulsi, appearing for CBI, had expressed the apprehension before the court that Mr. Shah was an influential person and was likely to influence witnesses in the case.
Mr. Shah, a close aide of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, had been granted bail by the Gujarat High Court three months after his arrest for his alleged role in the Sohrabuddin case.
Mr. Shah had to quit the Modi government in July this year after being slapped with charges of murder and kidnapping in the fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausar Bi in 2005.
A Bench of Justices Aftab Alam and R.M. Lodha while asking Mr. Shah to stay out of Gujarat granted him time till November 20 to file his response. They asked the CBI to file its rejoinder to the response by November 25 and posted the matter for further hearing to November 29.
The Bench passed the direction after senior counsel U.U. Lalit and counsel Bina Madhavan made an “impromptu mentioning” urging the court to grant additional time to file his response.
The Supreme Court earlier, during a special hearing in the residence of Justice Alam on October 30, had asked Mr. Shah to move out of Gujarat “till further orders” and had sought his response on the CBI’s plea for cancelling his bail.
It had asked Mr. Shah to file his response by November 12 and had originally listed the matter for further hearing to November 15.
The CBI had approached the Supreme Court on October 29 seeking cancellation of bail to Mr. Shah, granted by the Gujarat High Court a day earlier.
The CBI had sought urgent hearing of its plea, prompting the Supreme Court’s registry to arrange for the hearing on Justice Alam’s residence during Dussehra vacations.
The court had on October 30 directed Mr. Shah to leave Gujarat by the next morning, ordering him to stay out of the State till its further orders.
The special Bench had ordered Mr. Shah to leave the State after senior advocate K.T.S. Tulsi, appearing for CBI, had expressed the apprehension before the court that Mr. Shah was an influential person and was likely to influence witnesses in the case.
Mr. Shah, a close aide of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, had been granted bail by the Gujarat High Court three months after his arrest for his alleged role in the Sohrabuddin case.
Mr. Shah had to quit the Modi government in July this year after being slapped with charges of murder and kidnapping in the fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausar Bi in 2005.
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