Gujarat ex-top cop Vanzara discharged in Sohrabuddin fake encounter case

Mumbai, August 1 : The special CBI court here on Tuesday discharged former IPS officer from Gujarat DG Vanzara and Rajasthan cadre IPS officer Dinesh MN in the case of alleged fake encounters of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati.
Special CBI Judge Sunilkumar J Sharma discharged Vanzara and Dinesh MN.
Vanzara, a DIG-rank officer, was arrested on April 24, 2007 in connection with the alleged fake encounter of gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh, whom Gujarat Police claimed had links with Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba.
The Bombay High Court had granted bail to Vanzara in September 2014.
Reacting to the court’s order, Vanzara said, “Justice has finally been done.”
Sheikh and his wife Kausar Bi were allegedly kidnapped by the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad from Hyderabad on their way to Sangli in Maharashtra.
Sheikh was killed in an alleged fake encounter near Gandhinagar in November 2005, after which his wife disappeared and was believed to have been done to death.