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Deputy superintendent of police (DySP) RK Patel, named as an accused in the charge sheet filed by the CBI in the Tulsi Prajapati fake encounter case, had moved a petition for anticipatory
bail in the Gujarat high court. On the request of Patel’s lawyer Kirtikant Nanavati, Justice Sonia Gokani adjourned the hearing of the petition till Wednesday. On September 4, 2012, the CBI
had filed a charge sheet in the magisterial court of Danta, Banaskantha, in which had named former minister of state for home Amit Shah and 20 others as accused in the case. Former Gujarat
DGP PC Pande, director-general of Raksha Shakti University OP Mathur, suspended IPS officer DG Vanzara, ADGP Geetha Johri and RK Patel are also named in the charge sheet submitted in the
court of judicial magistrate in Danta. “I have enough reasons to believe that I will be arrested. I have not been served with either an FIR or a charge sheet implicating me. My reasons for
believing that I will be arrested are only based on the front-page news in one of the respectable daily newspapers,” Patel said in his petition. Patel, who is currently DySP, Sarkhej
division, Ahmedabad (Rural), was the investigating officer in the Prajapati encounter case from September 29, 2007 to April, 2011, when it was being probed by CID (crime), Gujarat.
Prajapati, an eyewitness of the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case, was allegedly killed in a fake encounter by the Gujarat police at Chhapri, in Banaskantha district on December 28, 2006.