Johri never shared any information with us: Andhra police

HYDERABAD - The Andhra Pradesh Police Sunday said Gujarat Police officer Geetha Johri had never shared any information during the investigations into the Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shootout case.

“I don’t know what information she has, she never shared it with us,” Director General of Police R.R. Girish Kumar told reporters here.

He was asked to comment on Johri’s allegation that the Andhra Pradesh Police had a clandestine role in the Sohrabuddin killing.

He also declined to comment on her allegation that the state police was responsible for the disappearance of Kalimuddin, who was accompanying Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausar Bi when they were picked up from a bus.

“How can I contradict, deny or support what she says? I don’t know what is her information and what is the basis of it,” the police chief said.

In a petition before the Supreme Court Thursday, Johri, a Gujarat cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, had said that Kalimuddin was an intelligence mole and Andhra Pradesh Police should be able to reveal his whereabouts.

“Certainly, if he (Kalimuddin) is involved in any case we will try to arrest him,” Girish Kumar added.

Johri, who had visited Hyderabad in 2007 in connection with the probe, said she had questioned the then police commissioner - Balwinder Singh - but he had expressed his ignorance. She wondered how the same officer, as the special director of the Central Bureau of investigation (CBI), could now head the probe.

She also told the Supreme Court that she had sought information about seven police officers of Andhra Pradesh who accompanied Sohrabuddin to Ahmedabad.

The police officers had provided logistics support to the Gujarat Police team which intercepted a bus on the Hyderabad-Mumbai highway and picked up Sohrabuddin and his wife on the night of Nov 22-23, 2005.