Two more prosecution witnesses in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati alleged fake encounters case on Friday turned hostile before a special CBI court here, taking the number of such witnesses to 55.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Himmat Singh and constable Kanti lal, both of the Rajasthan police, deposed before the special judge S J Sharma here on Friday.
Kanti lal, in his statement to the CBI, had said that he, with some other policemen, had taken Prajapati to an Ahmedabad court on November 27, 2006, a month before Prajapati's death in an 'encounter'.
Prajapati was lodged in the Udaipur Central Jail then.
However, in the court today, Kanti lal maintained that he had taken Prajapati to Ahmedabad on November 26 and not 27.
Following which, CBI lawyer B P Raju declared him as hostile. Himmat Singh, on the other hand, claimed he gave a statement to the CBI because the agency officials threatened to implicate him in a false case.
The CBI lawyer then declared him hostile too.
Singh had told the CBI that then SP Dinesh MN (who has been discharged in this case) directed on December 25, 2006 that assistant sub-inspector Narayan Singh and constables Dalpati Singh, Yudhveer Singh and Kartar Singh should escort Prajapati to Ahmedabad.