The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain a plea against two BJP MPs Prakash Javadekar and Bhupendra Singh Yadav for allegedly trying to impede the probe in Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case even as it questioned the locus of the petitioner.
The petitioner, a journalist, had allegedly claimed to have captured the “criminal conspiracy hatched and executed” by MPs, senior BJP leaders and advocates on concealed cameras as part of his undercover investigation.
“What is the locus of a third party in a criminal caseIJ We can entertain a plea if the complainant is before us,” the bench, headed by Justice B S Chauhan, said. It, however, allowed the petitioner Pushp Kumar Sharma to approach high court or trial court on the issue.
The petitioner, thereafter, withdrew his plea. The petition, filed on the basis of a ‘sting operation’ done by Sharma, alleged that attempts were made by the MPs to impede the trial and other judicial proceedings in this regard by “manipulating the complainant with the sole intent to protect Amit Shah,” former Gujarat Home Minister who is the main accused in the murder case.