Three deaths in 2005-06, 38 accused, 16 discharged, 22 acquitted in 2018, and the acquittals upheld in May 2026.
The CBI said police took Sohrabuddin, Kausar Bi and Tulsiram Prajapati off a bus.
Police said Sohrabuddin was killed resisting arrest. The CBI later called it staged.
The CBI alleged she was killed and her body burnt days after her husband's death.
Killed in another encounter near the Gujarat-Rajasthan border.
Who died, when, and what each side said.
D.G. Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandian and Dinesh M.N. were arrested.
Unsatisfied with the state probe, the court handed the case to the CBI.
Gujarat's Minister of State for Home was arrested two days after the CBI chargesheet.
The trial was shifted out of Gujarat to protect its fairness.
The court found no ground to try him. Fifteen more were discharged later.
16 discharged, 22 tried, all 22 acquitted.
Twenty-two accused, mostly junior police personnel, went on trial.
Nearly half the witnesses did not back the CBI.
The court found conspiracy, abduction and murder unproved.
What the CBI alleged and what the courts found.
Sohrabuddin's brothers asked the High Court to quash the verdict or order a retrial.
The agency told the court it would not challenge the acquittals.
The court found 'several broken links' and dismissed the appeals.
Seven orders that shaped the case.
From the first death to the High Court.
Three deaths, 38 accused, and no conviction.
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