If the CBI’s detailed chargesheet is to be believed, then the agency has found sound evidence to prove Mr Narendra Modi’s key lieutenant Amit Shah’s involvement in the killing of Kauser Bi, who was eliminated subsequent to the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin in November 2005.
Earlier, the couple, with a third person, Tulsi Prajapati, was kidnapped by the Gujarat police when they were travelling in a bus from Hyderabad to Sangli.
The agency has provided details of how Mr Shah and senior police officials D.G. Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandian, N.K. Amin and other lower-level officials eliminated her on the orders of Mr Shah, who wanted all evidence destroyed so that the Sohrabuddin case could never be proven in court.
A taped conversation between two accused in Sabarmati jail spills the beans of Mr Shah’s complicity in the crime and gives an account of how her body was burnt at Illol, the native village of D.G. Vanzara.
After killing her at a farmhouse on the outskirts of the city two days after Sohrabuddin’s encounter, Kauser Bi’s body was taken to Illol village for the funeral where Vanzara, Amin and other police officials were present on the spot.
The body, transported in a jeep, was wrapped in black cloth and placed on the pyre arranged by policemen Chauhan and Chaubey.
“Police constable Nathubha Jadeja put the body and Chaubey poured diesel on it and it was set on fire. After it burnt down, water was sprinkled to cool the ashes and the bones were collected in a gunny bag by the policemen at the instruction of Vanzara,” the CBI states in the chargesheet.
Subsequently, the gunny bag was taken to Bharuch district in South Gujarat where it was thrown into the Narmada river.