The BJP came down heavily on the CBI on Saturday for obeying the command of the Congress party in harassing Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and his close aid Amit Shah in connection with the Ishrat Jahan case.
BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said, ‘The statement made by Director CBI is very important. There was no prosecutable evidence even three years ago in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case. The CBI obliged the Congress-led UPA in its attempt to target the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP by charging and targeting Amit Shah.’ A controversy has erupted after the CBI chief Ranjit Sinha reportedly said that the UPA government would have been happy if BJP leader Amit Shah was named in the charge sheet as an accused, a comment which he later denied.