PIL against CBI for not challenging Amit Shah's discharge by court

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Sat, Jan 20, 2018, 12:10 AM

PIL against CBI for not challenging Amit Shah discharge by court

A city-based lawyers' association on Friday filed a public interest litigation in the Bombay high court against the CBI decision not to challenge a lower court order discharging BJP president Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter case.

In the PIL, the Bombay Lawyers Association has urged the high court to issue a direction to the CBI to file revision application challenging the sessions court order discharging Shah.

The petitioner's lawyer Ahmad Abidi said the plea would be mentioned before a division bench of justices SC Dharmadhikari and Bharti Dangre on January 22.

"The CBI is a premier investigating agency. It has public duty to observe the rule of law in its action which it has miserably failed," the petition said.

CBI has challenged discharge of two Rajasthan Police sub-inspectors Himanshu Singh and Shyam Singh Charan and senior Gujarat Police officer NK Amin but has not challenged Shah's discharge. This behaviour of selective challenging has led to PIL.