Arrested Dahod SP

Arrested Dahod SP, constables reconstruct Tulsi’s encounter

Vipul Agarwal maintains that he arrived at the crime scene after Tulsi was gunned down; constables confirm that SOG PI Pandya had fired from his service revolver
AHMEDABAD MIRROR BUREAU


Arrested Dahod Superintendent of Police (SP) Vipul Agarwal and five tainted constables of the Special Operation Group (SOG), Banaskantha, on Sunday afternoon reconstructed the fake encounter of Tulsiram Prajapati in the presence of CID Crime sleuths at Chhapri near Ambaji, where the accomplice of Sohrabuddin was gunned down on December 28, 2006.
While Agarwal reiterated he had arrived at the crime scene after the fake encounter at Banaskantha was over, the five arrested SOG constables confirmed the then sub-inspector of SOG MN Pandya had fired at Tulsi from his service revolver. Each constable and Agarwal enacted the fake encounter separately. Their recollections were video recorded in the presence of 15 CID Crime sleuths, including DIG IM Desai and Deputy Superintendent of Police (CID) RK Patel.
According to sources, all the five arrested SOG constables — Vinod Limbachia, Kiransinh Chouhan, Jethusinh Rajput, Karansinh Sisodia, Kanji Kachhi — claimed that they were directed on the intervening night of December 27 and 28 to intercept a white car at Chhapri checkpost and force its passengers out.
A source said: “The arrested constables reconstructed how they stopped the white car and brought out its driver, two unknown persons and Tulsi, whose hands were tied. They enacted how Pandya took out a country-made pistol from one of his pockets and fired at the empty car. Then, they reconstructed the way Pandya fired at Tulsi from his service revolver.”

AT GOD’S MERCY

After the reconstruction of Tulsi Prajapati’s fake encounter, the CID Crime team took Agarwal to Ambaji temple. The shrine’s guard saluted Agarwal, the former SP of Banaskantha. After his visit to the temple, Agarwal was whisked away to Ambaji circuit house. The arrested SP spent the Saturday night at Palanpur circuit house, said sources.