Overview
- Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh told a Bombay High Court bench that the CBI has accepted the special court’s judgment acquitting all 22 accused and will not file an appeal.
- In December 2018, the special CBI court in Mumbai acquitted the accused, citing a lack of documentary and substantive evidence and the failure to prove a conspiracy.
- Brothers Rubabuddin and Nayabuddin Shaikh appealed in 2019, alleging trial defects and misrecorded testimonies, and seeking to set aside the acquittal and order a retrial.
- The High Court directed the appellants to file a chart identifying witnesses whose statements were allegedly misrecorded and listed the matter for October 15.
- The case, transferred to the CBI by the Supreme Court, alleges staged police encounters that killed Sohrabuddin Shaikh, his wife Kausar Bi, and Tulsiram Prajapati, with the CBI’s 2010 chargesheets naming 38 individuals including senior officials.