Nayeem’s killing a cover up for Sohrab’s encounter: Congress

​Hyderabad: The Congress party on Monday alleged that gangster Md Nayeemuddin was killed in an encounter as he allegedly was the only witness to Sohrabuddin’s fake encounter that took place in 2005.

Speaking to the media at Gandhi Bhavan, Leader of Opposition in Telangana State Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir pointed out that gangster Nayeemuddin was killed within 24 hours of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the State. He alleged that Nayeem was a major link to both Haren Pandya’s murder and the Sohrabuddin case.

While referring to a curative petition of 2010 filed before the Supreme Court, Shabbir Ali said that Nayeemuddin was a witness in the investigation into Sohrabuddin case where he was often referred to as ‘Kalimuddin’. The Gujarat police, in its investigation, had claimed that Kalimuddin was on board a Hyderabad-Sangli bus in November 2005 with Sohrabuddin and Kauser Bi when they were allegedly abducted by policemen from Gujarat and AP and killed within days.

Although the CBI investigation later claimed that it was not ‘Kalimuddin’, but Tulasiram Prajapati, the then IGP Geetha Johri, who investigated the case, had claimed that ‘Kalimudddin,’ an informer, was a witness to the abduction of Sohrabuddin and Kauser Bi.

“Geetha Johri, in a curative petition filed in the Supreme Court, had reportedly said that Kalimuddin was in People’s War Group and then turned police informer and was being protected by the Andhra Pradesh police as a valuable informer for them as also for the central intelligence,” he pointed out.

Shabbir Ali said that Sohrabuddin’s fake encounter was a high profile case involving BJP national president Amit Shah. In July 2010, Amit Shah was arrested and was also banned from entering Gujarat till 2012. Although Amit Shah was acquitted of all charges in December 2014, Nayeem was a major link in both Haren Pandya and Sohrabuddin case.

“Incidentally, he was killed just one day after PM Narendra Modi’s visit to Telangana. Therefore, the State government must order a CBI probe to ensure that the truth comes out,” he said. Ali said that several new facts were emerging in cases related to Nayeem and his gang.

Further, suspicion was also being raised on the seriousness of investigation being conducted by Special Investigation Team headed by senior IPS officer Y Nagi Reddy. “As against the SIT’s claims of seizure of Rs 2.85 crore, there are rumours that the quantity of cash was huge.

There are unconfirmed reports that many property documents, seized from Nayeem’s dens, were either being destroyed or misused,” he alleged.