3 min learnMumbaiCould 7, 2026 09:47 PM IST
Rubabuddin, whose attraction towards the acquittal of twenty-two individuals for the alleged homicide of his elder brother, Sohrabuddin Shaikh, was dismissed by the Bombay Excessive Court docket on Thursday, mentioned that it has been a protracted, never-ending look forward to justice. “I’m 55 now. When this incident occurred, I used to be younger and had the energy to pursue justice. Now I have no idea whether or not I can proceed combating. I’ll seek the advice of my youngsters and different relations on whether or not we should always proceed pursuing the case and file an attraction earlier than the Supreme Court docket,” Rubabuddin mentioned.
The particular court docket in Mumbai acquitted all 22 individuals, together with 21 policemen from Gujarat, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh, booked for the alleged pretend encounter of Sohrabuddin and the murders of his spouse, Kausar Bi and his affiliate Tulsiram Prajapati, on December 21, 2018. 4 months after the decision, brothers Rubabuddin and Nayabuddin filed an attraction earlier than the Excessive Court docket, difficult the decision and stating that it was “fully contradictory to the proof at hand”.
The attraction was filed after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which investigated the case, didn’t problem the decision primarily based on its probe. “The CBI ought to have filed an attraction. We needed to file the plea after the company didn’t. Earlier, I visited courts, attended hearings. This time, I barely managed to come back to court docket for the proceedings. It has been over 20 years, I do not need the energy and power. We are going to await the detailed judgment and seek the advice of one another within the household earlier than deciding the subsequent step,” Rubabuddin advised The Indian Specific, on the telephone from his residence in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.
Rubabuddin, who additionally deposed earlier than the trial court docket as a prosecution witness on November 17, 2018, had mentioned after the decision then that he had filed a petition within the SC after being knowledgeable that his brother’s encounter as claimed by the police was not real. “The journey was not straightforward, we put in a lot effort, proper from in search of CBI investigation earlier than the Supreme Court docket in 2006. It’s a unhappy day, now we have not received justice. However, I’ll pursue the attraction on this case till the Supreme Court docket,” he had then mentioned.
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