Rahul Gandhi
A day after 22 accused in gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case were acquitted by a Special CBI court, Congress president Rahul Gandhi Saturday said "no one killed him" and he "just died".
All 22 accused in the alleged fake encounter killings of gangster Sohrabuddin Shaikh, his wife Kausar Bi and his aide Tulsi Prajapati were acquitted Friday by a special CBI court because of insufficient evidence, even as it expressed sorrow over the loss of "three lives."
He also highlighted the deaths of others like Haren Pandya, Kauser Bi and Justice Loya, saying "they just died".
"NO ONE KILLED... Haren Pandya. Tulsiram Prajapati. Justice Loya. Prakash Thombre. Shrikant Khandalkar. Kauser Bi. Sohrabuddin Shiekh. THEY JUST DIED,” Gandhi said on Twitter.
As the Congress chief sought to question the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case judgement, he was trolled by many on the Twitter.
While Gandhi's tweet received over 20,000 likes, he was also trolled by a few thousand, who took a dig at him highlighting the killings of Sikhs in Delhi in the 1984 anti-sikh riots and Kashmiri pundits, saying "no one killed them" and "they just died".
The trolls also made a mention of the death of some Congress leaders in the past, besides farmers and Tamils, among others.
BJP President Amit Shah, who was the Gujarat Home Minister at the time, the then Rajasthan Home Minister G.C. Kataria, high-profile ATS chief and DIG D.G. Vanzara, Superintendents of Police M.N. Dinesh and R.K. Pandian were among others discharged in Sohrabuddin Shaikh case earlier.
The Congress had last month sought a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the claim by a key witness in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh alleged fake encounter case that Vanzara had given a contract to kill Haren Pandya, then a minister in the the BJP government in Gujarat.
The party cited deposition of a witness Azam Khan in a CBI court that Sohrabuddin Shaikh knew that Pandya was "killed in a cold blooded murder."
Khan had said that Shaikh told him that he had got money from Vanzara to kill Gujarat's Home Minister and "he completed the job".
Khan, an associate of Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati, also claimed that while he had told the CBI investigator about it in 2010, the officer had refused to record it as part of his statement.
Pandya, who was then state Home Minister, was shot dead in Ahmedabad on March 26, 2003.
