CBI chief issues controversial statement on Ishrat; denies

“It is a very important statement coming from the Director CBI. There was no prosecutable evidence even three years ago in Sohrabuddin's case. The CBI obliged Congress-led UPA in its attempt to target the Prime Ministerial candidate of the BJP, the Chief Minister of Gujarat by charging and targeting Amit Shah,” BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said.

In September last year, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitely had accused CBI of “colluding” with the Congress in the Ishrat Jahan encounter probe and other fake encounters of Gujarat and demanded Commission of inquiry by Supreme Court Reacting to the development, Gujarat Congress leader Arjun Modhwadia said, “It is unfortunate that CBI Director who enjoys so much of autonomy that his files cannot be seen by the officers of the UPA Government leave aside the ministers is making such a statement.”

Taking a jibe at Sinha's statement, Janata Dal (United) leader Ali Anwar said, “The Director CBI should resign first.  If chief of big agency of this country like CBI speaks in such a manner, he should resign first and a case should be filed against him.

“It should come out how many accused he let off and how many were booked for pleasing his masters. An FIR should be filed and case should be run against him.” Although, Shah was neither an accused in the FIR nor has his name appeared in the charge sheet, as accused, he had been questioned twice in connection with the case as one of the accused police officer had hinted in his involvement.  

In his resignation letter, arrested Gujarat Police DIG DG Vanzara had alleged that people who were inspiring, guiding and monitoring the actions of encounter teams of Gujarat Police should also be arrested.