Ahmedabad: A special CBI court in Ahmedabad has today discharged ex-Deputy Superintendent of Police Tarun Barot and another co-accused retired policeman from the Sadiq Jamal Mehtar encounter case. With this four of eight accused policemen have been discharged from the case while one was abated after his death.

Sadiq worked as domestic help for Tariq Parveen, a close associate of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim, at his home in Mumbai and then in Dubai between 1996 to October 2002. The CBI has said that Sadiq left Dubai following an altercation with Parveen’s associate, a Pakistan-based gangster Salim Chiplun and within months of his arrival back home, Sadiq was killed.

Reacting to this development, retired supercop tweeted, Got justice for doing duty in service of the nation, for good of the country, Vande Mataram, Bharat Mata Ki Jay.

દેશહિત અને રાષ્ટહિતમા કરેલ કર્તવ્યમા ન્યાય મળ્યો. #ભારત_માતાની_જય #વંદેમાતરમ #જય_રણછોડ​🇮🇳🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/glHneGcTdY

— TarunBarotOfficial (@TarunBarotOffi1) February 20, 2021