Asked about his frequent phone conversations with police officer N K Amin before and after the encounter, Amit Shah replied: "The CBI has all my telephonic records for the last five years. During this time, I spoke to 130 police officers. Do you mean to say, I discussed encounters with each one of them?
"I was the Home Minister. Do they want me to speak to the executive engineer of Water Supply department?"
In a jibe at CBI, Shah said, "Fortunately Osama bin Laden did not die in an encounter in Gujarat, otherwise they would have framed charges against Obama".
On the Ishrat Jahan encounter, Amit Shah pointed out that the disclosures made by DSP D H Goswami about a meeting on June 12, 2004 between him, P P Pandey, D K Vanzara and IB officer Rajender Singh, two days after which Ishrat Jahan was killed, were not true.
"Goswami's statement before an Additional Judicial Magistrate was made after he was out on 'default bail', meaning the CBI did not file chargesheet against him within the stipulated 90 days. Clearly, both are connected".
