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The trial in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case in which former Gujarat minister Amit Shah is the prime accused is likely to be shifted outside Gujarat.
Expressing strong reservations against a trial in Gujarat,a Supreme Court bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai said Tuesday that while the CBIs plea for cancelling Shahs bail before it had to be decided one way or another,it might also pass an order to shift the case outside the state at the next hearing on September 4. It must go to some other state,like to Bombay in Maharashtra, said Justice Alam.
The CBI had asked for the trial to be shifted. While opposing the same,Shahs counsel Ram Jethmalani also requested the court to end Shahs exile from Gujarat in view of the coming Assembly polls.
Arrested in July 2010,Shah spent over three months in jail and had assured the court he would not enter Gujarat when the CBI sought cancellation of bail.
The court asked the CBI for a status of the case after amicus curiae Gopal Subramaniam alleged that the politician-policemen nexus had been ignored.
