Sohrabuddin Sheikh Fake Encounter (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter is an Indian criminal case with strong political repercussions. To start with, the Gujarat state police staged the killing of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, a known criminal and alleged terrorist, on 2005-11-26. The state government's lawyer A T S Tulsi later admitted before the Supreme Court of India that the "gun battle" in which Shaikh had died had been staged by the Gujarat police - such battles are known as "encounter killings" in India. The killing was orchestrated by senior police officers of the Indian Police Service, and was allegedly ordered by Gujarat minister for home Amit Shah. Shah, a senior politician in the Bharatiya Janata Party government and a close confidant of chief minister Narendra Modi, who was allegedly involved in a gigantic scale extortion racket.