In a yet another relief for former Gujarat cadre IPS officer Dahyaji Gobarji Vanzara known as DG Vanzara, a CBI court on Saturday allowed him to return back to his home-State Gujarat.
Vanzara, who retired as Deputy Inspector-General (DIG) will return home after almost nine years. He was in judicial custody from the year 2007 to 2015. Vanzara is one of the accused in encounter cases of Ishrat Jahan and Sohrubuddin Sheikh. For the past one year the court granted him bail on the condition that he would stay out of Gujarat. He made Mumbai his second home following this order.
In his bail modification application, Vanzara said that he was not safe in Mumbai. According to him Mumbai is a native place of international criminals like Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel and hence his life is under threat.
Vanzara is confined to Mumbai as per the bail condition imposed first by Bombay High Court while granting him bail in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh encounter case. later, the special CBI court also barred him
Retired Gujarat cop DG Vanzara had got bail after about seven years of imprisonment in encounter cases, but with rider that he will need to stay outside Gujarat. On Saturday the CBI court pronounced the order allowing former cop’s bail modification plea.
“The condition of not entering Gujarat and staying within the limit of Mumbai has been removed,” said the court. Reacting after the order, Vanzara’s son Prithvi said that his father would come to home almost after nine years and the family is all set to celebrate his return. According to him, his father couldn’t attend important family functions due to the cases (and imprisonment). Vanzara, an IPS officer of the 1987 batch, has constructed his house in the Gujarat’s capital Gandhinagar. He is also having ancestral house in North Gujarat town Himmatnagar.