Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday accused the Congress of conspiring against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah, who has been acquitted in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case.
"This should have happened long back. The Congress had made up a false case against him without any evidence. They conspired against him. In fact one of its leaders had written that only if Amit Shah gets caught only then they will be able to reach till Narendra Modi, but their efforts went in vain," said Javadekar.
In a major relief to Shah, a special CBI court in Mumbai earlier in the day acquitted him in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
The CBI had charged Shah, the then Home Minister of Gujarat, as an accused in the killing of gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati.
