Mr. Chetan Shah

b. Chetan Shah, an Ahmedabad-based criminal lawyer, is an ardent Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) supporter.He was appointed public prosecutor for the state for two major cases, the Gulberg Society massacre in which the former Congress Member of Parliament Shri Ahsan Jaffri was brutally massacred along with over 70 others (there were 10-12 gang rapes on girls and women before the killings).

· Until September 2003, Shah was defending all the 35 accused in the Gulberg Housing Society Massacre.All the accused are out on bail.

· Shah has been on the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) panel of lawyers for over two decades.

· In 1986, Shah was named in an FIR in connection with burning alive seven Muslims

· He was acquitted in that case for ‘‘lack of evidence."

· In June 2003, eye-witnesses from the Gulberg massacre, including Firoz Mohammed Gulzar Pathan who lost 5 family members in the massacre, case officially protested against his appointment because of his antecedents.
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In fact Mr. VP ATRE is the junior of Mr. Chetan Shah.

Earlier, on September 10, two witnesses to the Gulbarg Society massacre, Firoz Mohammed Pathan and Sayra Shandhi, had questioned state government's appointment of Mr Chetan Shah, apparently a panel advocate of the VHP, as the public prosecutor in the Gulbarg Society massacre case and had sought the appointment of an advocate with "credibility."

Mr Chetan Shah had been representing the 35 Hindus accused of the Gulbarg Society massacre until two months ago, when he was promoted to district government pleader and then appointed public prosecutor for the district.