Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee. India

On Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bibi Murder and the Role of Hyderabad Police

Strong Nexus between Hyderabad and Gujarat Police and Politicians of Ruling Parties of Gujarat and AP,
Facts should be brought before people
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Dear Chief Minister,

We are writing you this open letter about the murder of Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bibi and the involvement of Hyderabad police because the matter has reached at its highest level and role of Hyderabad police in killing Sohrabuddin is exposed. We demand to investigate this case and to take action against the police officers involved in the murder conspiracy of Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bibi. Hope you must be well aware of all the situations taking place but still we are once again reminding you what actually happened in Hyderabad in connection of Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bibi killing and the illegal nexus between Gujarat and Hyderabad police.

For your kind information the murder of Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bibi is nothing but the contract killing sponsored by marble mafia with the help police and politicians of Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh. Gujarat Police along with Hyderabad police played a game to eliminate Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bibi. The whole conspiracy was prepared at Hyderabad itself. At that time the then commissioner of police said that he provided ‘logistic help’ to the Gujarat police. Therefore, we want to know how the Hyderabad police extended ‘logistic support’ to them without the knowledge of their political bosses or the government of Andhra Pradesh led by the Congress party, the Chief Minister of which was Mr. Rajshekhar Reddy. In the name of ‘logistic support’ the Hyderabad police actually provided accommodation to the killer gang of Gujarat police in Police Officers Mess, provided the services of Counter Intelligence, Task Force and Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Hyderabad; the police officers belong to the different sections of police departments, they conducted many meetings with the Gujarat police to prepare the conspiracy of murder. In the name of ‘logistic support’ they provided the vehicles and fake number plates. They then followed the sangeeta travels bus from Nampally, Hyderabad in which Sohrabuddin and his wife were travelling. In the name of ‘logistic support’ Hyderabad police blocked the traffic on Hyderabad-Bombay highway near Tandola village and stopped the bus and kidnapped Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausar Bibi. Then they forced them in a vehicle of which the number plate was of Andhra Pradesh.

According to the assistant of Rajkumar Pandian, an IPS officer from Gujarat said seven police officers belonging to Hyderabad travelled along with Gujarat police in two Tata sumo vehicles and the same Hyderabad police officers were also seen at the ATS head office.

On this encounter killing, Ms. Geeta Johri, an IPS officer of Gujarat CID conducted an enquiry, she visited number of times to Hyderabad to interrogate the Hyderabad police officers mainly the then Additional Commissioner of Police Mr. Rajiv Trivedi, an IPS who was the incharge of all those departments such as Counter Intelligence, Task Force, SIT who provided all the help and support in the name of ‘logistic help’ to Gujarat police. There are other officers also whom she interrogated. Ms. Geeta Johri submitted the report in the Ahmedabad court in which she mentioned names of seven police officers of Hyderabad who are involved in this killing. She also mentioned in the charge sheet that these seven police officers are absconding. Rajiv Trivedi, Radhakrishnan and L.K Shinde were shown as witness in charge sheet.

Now it is for your information that the Supreme Court has seriously reacted on this charge sheet and ordered for CBI enquiry on the Sohrabuddin murder case to expose the hidden facts in which it was specially mentioned as to why the role of Hyderabad police was not mentioned in the charge sheet.

Now it is clear that Hyderabad police is equally responsible with Gujarat and Rajasthan police in the murder of Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bibi. The fact is that there is no such difference between Gujarat and Hyderabad. In Gujarat, police is targeting Muslims on the instructions of their political bosses and in Hyderabad, government has given free hand to police to suppress the Muslim community or any other people’s movement. Complete impunity exists in the Andhra Pradesh. Government of AP is protecting the guilty police officers and avoiding any investigation against them. It is trying maximum to hide the role of Hyderabad police officers involved and not cooperating with the CBI officers even after instructions from the Supreme Court.

During the investigation the facts came out very clearly that on 23rd November 2005 Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bibi who were travelling from Hyderabad to Sangli in a bus of Sangeeta travels, a conspiracy to kill them was made by the highest level police officers of Hyderabad, Gujarat and Rajasthan. Now it is also very clear that the marble mafia of Rajasthan has spent crores of rupees on this and the politicians who belong to the ruling class of both the states are involved. Sohrabuddin came to Hyderabad on 19th November with his wife. According to the information, the Hyderabad police used a surrendered naxalite who became police informer to invite Sohrabuddin to Hyderabad and also prepared journey plan through the same informer. When the CBI got the news of involvement of this police informer, they caught and interrogated his brother-in-law and after that these three people i.e. the police informer, his wife and brother-in-law disappeared.

As said earlier that Hyderabad police is equally responsible with Gujarat and Rajasthan police, they killed Sohrabuddin and his wife on 26th November 2005 and on 28th December 2006, Tulsiram Prajapathi was killed by the above police because it was said that, these people knew a lot about the politicians of three states and to eliminate the evidences against them, the political bosses instructed their police to finish these persons.

Dear Chief Minister, we come to know from all the above facts, that the Hyderabad police is perfect to prepare conspiracy to kill people and are also more professional than the police of other states. Because, the police officers of other states are arrested and are behind bars but even after the expose of the Hyderabad police officers names and their involvement, because of the strong political background they are still free.

It is assumed that 7 senior IPS officers of Hyderabad extended unofficial help to the Gujarat police and provided all kinds of cooperation in the name of ‘logistic support’. We want to know from you why the senior police officers extended support to Gujarat police to eliminate Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bibi without any official papers or judicial orders. On whose instructions, the vehicles, buildings, property, and the police force of AP did these officers make use of? On whose orders was the surrendered naxalite used for this purpose? Interestingly, the then Home Minister, the encounter specialist and the police informer all belong to the Nalgonda district of AP.

Therefore, we want to know what is the difference between the Modi’s government of Gujarat and the Congress government of Andhra Pradesh? In April 2007 Ms. Geeta Johri interrogated Mr. Rajiv Trivedi, T.V. Shashidhar Reddy and Anil Kumar all IPS officers, so interestingly when the murder of Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bibi took place, Rajiv Trivedi was Additional Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad and Shashidhar Reddy was Deputy Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad. It is assumed that the police officers involved belong to Central Crime Station, Special Investigation Team and Task Force; Rajiv Trivedi was the incharge of the above three departments of Police. After so many allegations and information on Hyderabad police, why the Congress government did not initiate departmental enquiry on these officers? Why the Congress government is worried to initiate any kind of enquiry on this issue? The people of this state believe that there is strong nexus between two states police i.e. Gujarat and Hyderabad. Now the doubt has become very strong that not only the police but also the politicians of two states are involved in this murder. The Modi government of Gujarat and the Congress government of Andhra Pradesh are the two sides of the same coin. We say this because the Gujarat police always enter Hyderabad very easily and kidnap people of AP on the name of arresting, the examples of which are the arresting of Muslim Youth and the recent arrest of Amar. This is the example of the strong nexus of political class and police of these two states.

In the year 2007, the then Chief Minister Mr. Rajshekhar Reddy had denied the probe by saying that all this is rubbish and the then Home Minister Mr. Jana Reddy said that he does not know anything as it is matter a of past few years, the then Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad admitted that the help was provided by the Hyderabad police and named it as ‘logistic support’. On the other side the Congress government issued the G.O’s to register the cases against the media and Civil Liberties who had actually raised the question on the involvement of AP police in the murder of Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bibi. Therefore, the above things show that there is something black in the bottom and the ruling political party of Andhra Pradesh, i.e. Congress party is protecting the facts as well as the people involved. This shows the double standard of the Congress and non-seriousness on the issue of fake encounter and on the right to life.

Dear Chief Minister,
The silence of A.P. Government led by congress party is a big question mark on free and fair enquiry. The people of this country are eager to know what the present Chief Minister has to say in this regard. The people of this country also want the Chief Minister to act decisively and unequivocally against this crime on Humanity. So, we herewith request you to intervene in this matter for the greater cause of humanity, suspend the police officers who are involved in the murder of Sohrabuddin and others so that they can not misuse their official position to remove the evidences. It is the responsibility of your government that the facts should be brought before people and extend your cooperation to the CBI to take action against this killer police gang.

Lateef Mohd Khan
Gen. Secretary
CLMCI