New Delhi, Sep 28 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Wednesday dismissed the allegation that former Gujarat minister Amit Shah was a target of political vendetta in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shootout case.

The CBI told an apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai that ‘it is a case of extortion, misuse of authority, tampering of evidence, liquidation of witnesses by a crime syndicate of police officers headed by Amit Shah’.