Jammu: BJP today welcomed the verdict by a special CBI court discharging BJP President Amit Shah in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. “The verdict of the court has vindicated BJP's stand that Amit Shah was innocent and was intentionally fabricated,” Jugal Kishore Sharma, state president of BJP said.
He said that it was Congress that played conspiracy against Shah but the decision of the court has proved that truth cannot be suppressed.
“Congress in particular has always adopted such tactics to defame the popular faces of other political parties and create confusions in the minds of the people but today's decision has also strengthened the faith of the people in judiciary,” Sharma said.
The BJP leader added that the people also have been closely monitoring the types of politics being played by Congress across the country and have been “punishing it which is clear from the fact that the Congress after defeat in Lok Sabha, is getting wiped out from one state after the other”. The court verdict today, meanwhile, triggered strong reactions from the opposition parties.
AAP said that there were “glaring discrepancies” in what is in the charge sheet and way the case was argued before the court.
Questioning CBI's role in the matter, Congress described the verdict as “strange and worrisome” and alleged that the “chained, caged and totally immobilised” probe agency was under “government pressure”.
