The copies of the charge sheet, which was filed on December 22, were handed over to the accused today by the court.
The CBI has charge sheeted Deputy Superintendent of Police Tarun Barot, inspectors Jaysinh Parmar, Irshad Ali Saiyed and Kishoresinh Vaghela, sub-inspectors Ramji Mavani and Ghanshyamsinh Gohil and constables Ajaypalsingh Yadav and Chhatrasinh Chudasama.
While six policemen had been arrested in the case before the filing of the charge sheet, Saiyed had surrendered before the court after the charge sheet and a non-bailable warrant was issued against Vaghela in this case.
Apart from criminal conspiracy (Sec 120B of IPC) and murder (Sec 302), the eight policemen have also been charged for wrongful confinement (Sec 342) and giving false information regarding an offence committed (Sec 203).
The charge sheet states that the probe, undertaken by the investigating agency, has found that Sadiq Jamal was killed in a stage-managed encounter while he was kept in illegal confinement of the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) Ahmedabad.
It further mentions that the alleged accused police officials, in order to give this encounter a colour of genuine encounter, planted and effected recovery of a revolver and ammunition from the deceased.
Sadiq was allegedly shot dead on November 13, 2003 near Galaxy Cinema in Naroda area here by police officers on the grounds that he was a Laskhar-e-Taiba operative, who was on a mission to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi and VHP leader Pravin Togadia.
The Gujarat High Court had in June 2011 transfered the case to CBI following a petition by Shabbir Jamal, brother of the victim.
