In 2010, Amit Shah, then Gujarat’s minister of state for home, was arrested and jailed on charges that he had ordered the state police to kill an alleged gangster named Sohrabuddin Sheikh, his wife Kausarbi and his associate Tulsiram Prajapati.

Shah was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation after the Supreme Court transferred the case from the Gujarat Police to the central agency to ensure an impartial inquiry.

But it was the Gujarat Police that first raised suspicions about the alleged involvement of police officials in the killings, in a report that it submitted to the Supreme Court.

The report had been submitted on the orders of Kuldip Sharma, a decorated Indian Police Service officer who had won the President’s Police Medal in 2001, and who was an additional director gener

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