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Remand for police inspector

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AHMEDABAD: A police inspector in the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad, considered by the CID (Crime) as a vital link in the Sohrabuddin alleged fake encounter case, was granted seven days police remand by the Ahmedabad metropolitan court.

Balkrishna Chaubey, absconding since the arrest two months ago of the three IPS officers, including D. G. Vanzara, surrendered before the CID (Crime) in Gandhinagar on Sunday and was produced before the court for remand on Monday.

The Sohrabuddin fake encounter investigating team told the court that Mr. Chaubey needed to be questioned closely to unravel some of the unanswered puzzles. The CID (Crime) believed that Mr. Chaubey was one police official who was an eyewitness to almost the entire incident, from the arrest from a Hyderabad-Sangli bus of Sohrabuddin and his wife, Kauserbi, to the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in November, 2005, alleged killing of Kauserbi in a farmhouse on the outskirts of Gandhinagar two days later and the alleged disposal of her body in Mr. Vanzara’s farmhouse in his native Illol village in Sabarkantha district. The police claimed that Mr. Chaubey had taken Kauserbi’s body to Illol village where it was burnt in the ravines in the presence of Mr. Vanzara and other accused police officials.

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