New Delhi: An advocate-cum-politician, who has been pursuing the politically-sensitive Rs 64-crore Bofors pay-off case in the Supreme Court, has questioned the move of the CBI to appeal against a Delhi High Court decision quashing charges against the Europe-based industrialists, the Hinduja brothers.
The apex court on September 1 had posted for hearing in the week beginning October 30 the 12-year-old appeal filed by advocate and BJP leader Ajay Agarwal, who had contested the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 from Rai Bareli against Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
Agarwal, who lost the election, has said in a letter addressed to CBI Director Alok Verma that instead of filing an appeal against the high court judgement, the agency should respond to his criminal appeal and clarify its stand through an affidavit in the top court.
He has said that filing of a fresh appeal by CBI would delay the matter which is coming up for hearing.
"I don't know who has advised CBI to do this but certainly it is ill advised and it is not a prudent step of the CBI and it could delay the matter for a long time," he said in his letter on Saturday.