Prajapati encounter: Case papers handed over to sessions court

Months after the Supreme court transferred Gujarat's Tulsiram Prajapati encounter case to a special CBI court in Mumbai, the Bombay High court handed over the case papers to the sessions court.
The documents were handed over to the court yesterday.
Prajapati case now will be tried by the same judge who is presiding over the Soharabuddin Sheikh encounter case. Former Gujarat Minister of State for Home, Amit Shah is also an accused in the case.
Registrar of Gujarat High Court had earlier handed over the case papers to the Registrar of the Bombay High Court, who then gave them to the lower court.

The CBI had filed a chargesheet in the case on September 29, 2012 against Shah and other 18 others, including many police officers.
Sheikh and his wife Kauser Bi were allegedly abducted by Gujarat's Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) from Hyderabad and killed in an alleged fake encounter near Gandhinagar in November 2005. While Tulsiram Prajapati, a key witness to the encounter, was allegedly killed by police at Chapri village in Banaskantha district in Gujarat, in December 2006.
The investigative agency had claimed that Tulsiram was an eye-witness in Sohrabuddin encounter and that's why he was killed in a fake encounter by the accused, many of whom are also accused in the Sohrabuddin case.