Earlier, an unprecedented total of 32 police officers Himanshu Singh Rajawat, Shyamsingh Charan, Ashish Pandya, Yudhvir Singh, Kartar Singh, Narayansingh Chauhan, Jethasingh Solanki, Kanjibhai Kutchi, Vinodkumar Limbachiya Kiransingh Chauhan and Karansingh Sisodiya, Vijaykumar Rathod,[5] including six IPS officers including D. G. Vanjara and Rajkumar Pandian of Gujarat cadre and Dinesh M.N.
Vanzara, known to be close to Amit Shah and Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat at the time, had been transferred there as DIG Border range just 13 days earlier.
[9] In September 2013, after six years in prison, Vanzara who called Modi "my God", became disgruntled,[10][11] and apparently claimed a connection between the Tulsiram Prajapati and the unsolved murder of ex-BJP minister Haren Pandya,[12] who was at one time a minister under Narendra Modi.
[13] Similar claims have also been made by the DNA newspaper,[14] which has suggested that Sheikh was eliminated because of his links to the political murder of Pandya.
The CBI and a team of forensic science experts reconstructed the alleged fake encounter of Tulsi Prajapati by Gujarat police in 2006 at Chhapri village in the district on July 8, 2011.