Udaipur:
A key witness in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, Azam Khan, has been shot at in Udaipur. He received bullet injuries in his left arm.
He was then admitted to a government hospital and his condition is stated to be out of danger, the police says.
The miscreants fled after firing two rounds. Khan's friend was unhurt.
Azam Khan had told NDTV that politicians, including a Rajasthan BJP leader, were paid 10 crore rupees by the marble mafia to get Sohrabuddin killed.
(Read: Who was Sohrabuddin Sheikh?)Two Rajasthan BJP leaders - Om Mathur and Gulabchand Kataria - are suspected of serving as the link between the marble lobby that wanted Sohrabuddin killed, and Amit Shah. Shah, who was arrested by the CBI last week, allegedly comissioned Gujarat police officers to kill Sohrabuddin.
Close aide of Sohrabbudin and now a key witness in the case, Azam Khan gave a statement to the CBI in February this year. NDTV also has details of that statement.
In his statement Khan alleges Abhay Chudasama, arrested in April this year in the Shorabuddin murder case, was involved in the extortion racket along with Sohrabuddin. Chudasama, a senior IPS officer is said to be close to Amit Shah, Gujarat's former Minister of State for Home.
In November 2005, Sohrabuddin was shot dead on the outskirts ofAhmedabad. His wife, Kauser Bi, was also killed. At the time, Gujarat'sAnti-Terror Squad (ATS) said that Sohrabuddin was a terrorist whoplanned to assassinate Modi. In 2007, the Gujarat state governmentadmitted in court that Sohrabuddin and Kauser Bi had been wronglykilled. Some of the state's senior-most policemen are in jail, chargedwith murder, criminal conspiracy, and kidnapping.
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With PTI inputs)