Modi aide Amit Shah too gets clean chit in Ishrat Jahan encounter case

New Delhi, May 7: The CBI on Wednesday told a special court that no sufficient evidence has been found against former Gujarat minister Amit Shah in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter killing case.

On April 28, Union minister Kapil Sibal had raked up alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan to hit out at Narendra Modi, saying the BJP's PM nominee and Amit Shah were being "shielded" despite existence of "clinching" evidence to arrest them.

The CBI, investigating the alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others, has not included any political leaders in chargesheets filed by it but has charged police and IB officers for murder and criminal conspiracy among other things.

Shah, a close aide of Narendra Modi and BJP's election-in-charge in UP, is facing murder and conspiracy charges in two other fake encounter cases — Sohrabuddin Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati.

The CBI has charged 11 policemen, including four officers of the central IB, for killing the four people in the case.