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Modi 'potential accused' in Prajapati murder case: Sibal

New Delhi: Stepping up the offensive against Narendra Modi, the Congress today said he was a "potential accused" in the Tulsiram Prajapati murder case and should be interrogated by the CBI, hours after the the

"We being field officers have simply implemented the conscious policy of this government which was inspiring, guiding and monitoring our actions from very close quarters," he quoted Vanzara as saying.

Sibal said Prajapati was "required to be eliminated" because he was the only witness in the abduction of Sohrabuddin and Kauser Bi. "His testimony as a witness would have directly implicated all the accused," he said.

"Hence it was plan of Amit Shah and others that somehow Prajapati should be eliminated", he remarked.

Sibal said Parag was the brother of Hiten Shah, who was close to Modi since they were volunteers in the RSS and he looked after publicity.

Releasing the call record details between Parag and Pandian from a website "Truth of Gujarat", Sibal said what was not revealed is the number of phone calls between them along with the phone calls between Amit Shah and Pandian.

"Sohrabuddin was killed in an encounter with the police party on November 26, 2005 at Ahmedabad. Kausar Bi, his wife was murdered on November 29/30, 2005 and her body was disposed of. Prajapati was murdered in cold blood in a police encounter on December 28, 2006. In all these cold blooded murders, Amit Shah is a co-conspriator...," the Law Minister said.

He said that during the "core period of criminal conspiracy" between November 2005 and December 2006, the total number of calls exchanged between Amit Shah, D G Vanzara, S Pandian Rajkumar and Dinesh M N has been reflected in the CBI charge sheet in the fake encounter case.

He said he was not raising any suspicion on the CBI but wondered why the agency did not interrogate Modi when these recordings were with them. "I am not saying anything. I just wanted to know why?" he said.