Rajendra Jeerawala, owner of a farm house in Gujarat who, according to CBI, facilitated the illegal detention, leaves the special CBI court after he was acquitted, in Mumbai.
The court of special CBI judge J K Pandya posted the matter for hearing on February 16 after the CBI said it is awaiting a reply from the state government on sanction to prosecute retired police officials.
The NGO, in its plea, referred to news reports quoting Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ADG Anand Kumar justifying encounter killings of criminals in the state.
At the last hearing, the Gujarat government had objected to the report, saying Justice Bedi has submitted it without consulting the members of the monitoring committee.
Responding to the comment of Rahul Gandhi that 'nobody killed Sohrabuddin', Jaitley said, "it would have been more appropriate if he had asked the right question, namely who killed Sohrabuddin case investigation, he would have got the right answer."
After the final arguments were wrapped up earlier this month, Special judge for CBI cases S J Sharma had said he will pronounce the verdict on December 21.
Restating its earlier directions, Justice Lokur ordered that the investigating authorities should go ahead without being influenced by any of the observation made by the court by its July 20 order.
The witness -- name not disclosed -- said he met Shaikh in 2002 and became good friends with him and his wife Kausar Bi and his associate Tulsi Prajapati.
