‘ONCE CASE IS WITH CBI, I WILL REVEAL EVERYTHING’

Dy SP IK Yadav, who probed the killing of Sameer Khan, tells Ashish Khetan the truth

‘such a shot can only be fired from close range. That means the deceased didn’t have a revolver’

Tehelka: Please help us

Yadav: You don’t have a copy of the plea, no?

Yes, it is with the lawyer who says Sameer was nabbed…

Don’t you have that plea which says Sameer Khan tried to kill policemen and was killed in retaliation?

We have the FIR copy. We also have the other thing.

The court did not accept that he was a terrorist. The high court also dismissed the case. But don’t you have Sameer Khan’s plea?

What can we do now?

You go to the Supreme Court and submit a plea saying that he was arrested from Gita Mandir locality and was killed on such and such date. This is also written in the plea.

He was nabbed on the 27th.

It’s all right. He was kept here till the 30th, he was kept in this or that place. So why was he not caught in the first instance. This is also written here (pointing to Chittaranjan Singh’s original letters). It will be favourable to you.

But they (Singh’s letters) do not have any signature?

It’s not needed.

How will the court be convinced these are genuine documents?

The court should demand genuine papers. You should tell the court that Yadav did the investigation. But when he started questioning and was about to reveal that the encounter was a fake, the investigation was handed over to another officer.

To whom?

It was given to Sharma. He met Vanzara and the case was distorted and suppressed. Sameer Khan sustained a bullet here (on the right temple) that pierced through there (lower part of the back of the head).

Who did he (Sharma) meet?

He met Vanzara and case was distorted and suppressed.

Yes.

If they say they shot someone from a distance of six feet then the person who shot should also be 10-11 feet tall for the deceased to sustain a bullet injury here (on the temple). Otherwise, such a shot can only be fired from close range. That means the deceased didn’t have a revolver. If he had had a revolver, they would not have shot him from so close. Second, he sustained three bullet injuries and one pierced through here and another through there (pointing to his ribs). If you will see this in the light of the doctor’s report, you will see black powder was found there (on his bullet wounds). This is only possible if he was shot point blank. So this was a fake encounter.

How many bullets did they fire?

Three. One was fired at him (on his left rib), another here (right rib) and one here (head)… If he (Sameer) did open fire on the police, it must be somewhere but we didn’t find any traces.

Was the post-mortem conducted?

Yes. It was.

What did the report say?

It said that bullets travelled through this part and that… and it said that he was wearing a tericot shirt not cotton and the shirt was burnt by bullets.

What does this mean?

It means that the clothes can have burn marks only if the bullet was shot from a point-blank range.

Did these people lie about the cloth being cotton? They lied.

Yes, they lied.

Are all these facts not in your investigation?

Yes, I have all the facts. But only if they ask can I give them. The case was any way given to someone else.

Hope the files haven’t been burnt.

They can’t burn it.

You said that you were about to arrest him once and Sharma did all his investigation sitting in Vanzara’s office.

Yes that’s right. It’s all written in his (Sharma’s) diary.

Is Vanzara accused in this?

He is accused in this case. He was behind the whole episode, his letters also prove that he is responsible for this incident.

What did he write in the letters?

When I had written to him, he replied that my investigation was going on the wrong lines. He said he (Sameer) visited Pakistan. I asked him to provide the e-mail that Sameer had received. He (Vanzara) replied in writing that he had no e-mail.

But he said in court…

All false things were prepared. They will be trapped in their own web later.

Did he also threaten you?

Yes, he had said that I would end up as a corpse.

What did he mean by that?

He meant that if I didn’t comply with his wishes, I would be killed. I told him that I will be sitting here till night and he may come and see me. Vanzara called and I said that I was waiting for him since evening.

How long was the case with you?

About five-six months.

Did you mention the post-mortem report in your investigation?

Yes, it has everything.

Does it have Tirth Raj’s report?

Get this done first. Once the case is with the CBI, I will reveal everything when they take my statement.

What is there in the post-mortem that we can mention in our plea?

The most important thing in it is that he was shot through his clothes and one bullet pierced through to that part and gunpowder traces were present on it. They had shown that he had a revolver when he was shot and that they had shot him from a distance. But the powder was there on the clothes. It is only possible when he is shot from a point-blank range. The tericot shirt will be burnt only if he was shot from nearby. And there were four other inspectors, they could have shot him when he was snatching the revolver.

Why was Sameer killed? What could be the reason?

They killed him just so that they could become heroes and earn Narendra Modi’s favour.

Why did they have to kill him?

This is all a political game.

Tirth Raj told us that he held the DGP and everyone guilty in his report?

Yes, that is absolutely right.

He told us that papers were changed. He said that these papers were meant for PP Pandey and the changed papers were addressed to DCP Crime.

He’s right, they were changed. Don’t bother about all these issues, they are there in my report.