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The Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case is an ongoing criminal case in the Gujarat state of India, after the state police killed Sohrabuddin Anwarhussain Sheikh on November 26, 2005, while he was in police custody. Apart from being involved in the criminal extortion racket in Gujarat, Sheikh was also involved in arms smuggling in Madhya Pradesh, and also had murder cases registered against him in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Sheikh was also claimed by the police to be associated with the banned global terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Pakistani intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence, and was alleged to have planned to create communal chaos in the state by assassinating "an important political leader".〔 Although the target of Sheikh's plans has never been officially revealed, the impression was given to political effect that it was to have been Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. Sheikh's wife Kauser Bi also disappeared on the same day as his killing. A year later, on December 26, 2006, Sheikh's associate Tulsiram Prajapati, a witness to Sheikh's killing, was also killed in another police encounter shooting.〔 Sheikh was alleged by the police to be extorting protection money from local marble factories in Gujarat and Rajasthan.〔 He was also claimed to have links to fellow underworld criminals Sharifkhan Pathan, Abdul Latif, Rasool Parti and Brajesh Singh, who were all members and associates of India's largest organized crime network and underworld mafia operated by Dawood Ibrahim.〔〔〔 During investigations before he was arrested, the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) of the Gujarat police claimed to have found 40 AK-47 assault rifles from his village residence in Madhya Pradesh. The state government's lawyer, KTS Tulsi, later submitted before the Supreme Court that the 'The preliminary inquiry has found that it was a fake encounter.'〔 Such encounters are known in India as encounter killings, and in this case, as "fake encounters". It is alleged that the killing was orchestrated by senior police officers and at the behest of Gujarat's Home minister Amit Shah.〔 quote: "The CBI states Sohrabuddin was trying to extort money from owners of marble factories in Rajasthan... and threatened the owners of RK Marbles. ... At this juncture, the CBI chargesheet alleges Amit Shah came into the picture and ordered Sohrabuddin's killing."〕 Shah is a senior politician in the Bharatiya Janata Party government and a close confidant of chief minister Narendra Modi. Modi, as well as Gulab Chand Kataria, a senior BJP leader and ex-minister from the neighbouring state of Rajasthan, have also been investigated in the matter.〔(Move Sohrabuddin case outside Gujarat: CBI ) Jul 31, 2010, quote: "The CBI sought the transfer of the trial... to a court outside Gujarat, telling the Supreme Court that it needed to investigate people higher than former home minister Amit Shah — a euphemism for chief minister Narendra Modi"〕〔 More than 10 police officers were subsequently arrested for the killings of Sheikh and Prajapati.〔 ==Cases against Sohrabuddin Sheikh == Sohrabuddin Sheikh was accused of possessing 40 AK-47 assault rifles that were recovered from his house in Jharania village of Ujjain district in 1995.〔 At the time of his killing, he also had more than 60 pending cases against him, ranging from extorting protection money from marble factories in Gujarat and Rajasthan, to arms smuggling in Madhya Pradesh, to murder cases both in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Sheikh was a notorious underworld criminal with links to the Sharifkhan Pathan alias Chhota Dawood and Abdul Latif gangs, and with Rasool Parti and Brajesh Singh, both known to be close to India's underworld kingpin Dawood Ibrahim.〔 To escape the police, Sheikh fled with his family from Gujarat to the city of Hyderabad in the state of Telangana. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Death of Sohrabuddin Sheikh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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