Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah, who was summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for his alleged role in the 2005 killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in a staged shootout, has resigned, Chief Minister Narendra Modi said here Saturday.
Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah, who was summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for his alleged role in the 2005 killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in a staged shootout, has resigned, Chief Minister Narendra Modi said here Saturday.
"As I landed here in Delhi, I have information that Amit Shah's resignation has reached my residence in Gandhinagar.
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On return, I will accept it and complete the formalities," Modi, who is here to attend the National Development Council meeting, said.
Asked by reporters whether the resignation amounted to accepting that Shah was guilty, Modi said, "He was accepting it because under the Constitution, certain formalities have to be fulfilled".
He said Shah would fight the issue legally and expressed confidence that judiciary would provide him justice. Shah's resignation comes a day after CBI charged him with kidnapping and murder of alleged gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauser Bi in November 2005.
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