The Times of India: Ahmedabad: Sunday, May 20, 2012.
The dispute between accused IPS officials in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case has now began to surface after five years of imprisonment.
The tiff between the two IPS officers began with one of them seeking details under the Right to Information laws about facilities given by jail authorities to another senior cop during judicial custody. This application filed before the Sabarmati central jail authorities under the RTI was a subject of discord among the cops, but a flare up took place a couple of days ago.
The junior IPS, of course suspended, was playing radio in the Sardar Yard where all the senior cops have been lodged. The senior took an objection and asked the junior to reduce the volume of transistor. The later got agitated and rebuttedwith a comment that after spoiling their lives, the senior should have permitted him to live life as per his wis
This ended up in a scuffle between the two, and the jail authority had to intervene, sources said. Following this, the junior IPS officer started making allegations against the jail staff of providing facilities to the senior prisoners illegally. This forced the jail staff to conduct videography of Sardar Yard.
A thorough search was conducted resulting in seizure of a television set, the radio and many other accessories. A jail official said that following this scuffle, the authorities have now decided to separate these prisoners and the possibility is that shift some of the prisoners to general yard from Sardar Yard,while the others might be shifted to other prisons in the state.
The rift among the group of accused cops was visible ever since the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) took up the probe in 2010.Suspended deputy superintendent of police N K Amin proposed to become an approver and sought to be transferred from the Sabarmati central jail citing security issues. Even on the issue of shifting the trial outside Gujarat, a couple of cops have supported CBI in its bid.
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