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The Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case is a criminal case in the Gujarat state after the death of Sohrabuddin Anwarhussain Sheikh on November 26, 2005. A special CBI court acquitted all the 22 accused in the case in the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife.
According to a September 2016 column by Priya Ramani in Mint, Gujarat Files has become a bestseller with Ayyub managing to sell 32,000 copies of her book. Ramani notes that although no publisher was willing to publish her work, India's biggest English language book distributor, India Book Distributors (IBD), has reached an agreement with Ayyub to distribute the book the previous month and they ...
His grandfather, Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy, was a Dhaka-based Sufi leader of the Bengali Renaissance and buried beside the Lalbagh Fort. [13] His father Justice Sir Zahid Suhrawardy was a Judge of the Calcutta High Court. His brother Hasan Shaheed Suhrawardy was a linguist, poet, art-critic and diplomat
Dhananjay Vanzara, popularly known as D. G. Vanzara, is the former Inspector-General of Police [1] (IG) from Gujarat, India.He was in judicial custody from 2007 until his bail in 2015 on charges of having conducted a series of extrajudicial killings, [2] while heading the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS). [3]
The police team involved in the incident had been led by DIG D.G. Vanjara, an officer who spent eight years in jail for his alleged involvement in the extrajudicial killing of another person, Sohrabuddin Sheikh. [3] Five years later, in 2009, an Ahmedabad Metropolitan court ruled that the encounter was staged. [4]
Pandya was shot dead while out on a morning walk in March 2003, a year after his fallout with Modi. In 2003, it was Vanzara who had originally investigated the Pandya murder. [ 13 ] Similar claims have also been made by the DNA newspaper, [ 14 ] which has suggested that Sheikh was eliminated because of his links to the political murder of Pandya.
After his marriage, he immigrated to Israel. [24] He resides in Modi'in with his wife and children. [4] In 2011 he recorded a duet for his song "Birkat HaBanim" (Bless the Children) with his firstborn son Eyal, then aged 13. While the boy shows talent, Ohad prefers that he perform in the school choir and in the studio with him, but not on stage.
His wife, Hena Shahab, has contested from the Siwan constituency as the candidate from the Rashtriya Janata Dal following his disqualification and has been described as a proxy candidate. [ 9 ] Shahabuddin was described as a convicted gangster, [ 10 ] [ 4 ] a bahubhali ( strongman ) in the Siwan district , [ 11 ] and a close aide of Lalu Prasad ...