The police said the accused initially sent a friend request on Facebook to the victim and, over video calls, made a video using morphed pictures of the senior citizen and subsequently extorted money from him by posing as a CBI officer
Gujarat IPS Officer Satish Chandra Verma had probed the 2004 Ishrat Jahan case between April 2010 and October 2011 and on his investigation report, a special investigation team held it was a fake encounter.
SR Singh also told the court that he had questioned psychiatrist and Sanatan Sanstha founder Dr Jayant Balaji Athawale in February 2016 in connection to the murder probe, but nothing incriminating came to light.