Reuters, New Delhi :
The head of India’s ruling party was acquitted of three murder charges on Tuesday in a trial that had undermined the government’s promise to usher in a new era of clean politics.
Shah, the closest aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was cleared of ordering police to carry out the extrajudicial killings of a gangster – Sohrabuddin Sheikh, his wife and his friend – when he served as home minister under Modi in the state of Gujarat almost a decade ago, Shah’s lawyer, Mitesh Amin, said.
The head of India’s ruling party was acquitted of three murder charges on Tuesday in a trial that had undermined the government’s promise to usher in a new era of clean politics.
Shah, the closest aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was cleared of ordering police to carry out the extrajudicial killings of a gangster – Sohrabuddin Sheikh, his wife and his friend – when he served as home minister under Modi in the state of Gujarat almost a decade ago, Shah’s lawyer, Mitesh Amin, said.
