A special court on Tuesday fixed 9 October as the date for considering the closure report filed by CBI in connection with the alleged irregularities in the supply of all-terrain Tatra vehicles to Indian Army.
It was learnt that the matter was scheduled to be heard on Tuesday but the concerned judge was on leave and it was rescheduled for next Thursday. Earlier, CBI had sought time to file documents relating to the case against Ravinder Kumar Rishi, promoter of Tatra Sipox UK Limited, and others, including unnamed officials of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML), a defence PSU.
The probe agency in its closure report has claimed that allegations levelled against the accused in its FIR could not be substantiated during the subsequent investigation. CBI had earlier claimed that Tatra vehicles were procured from Tatra-Sipox UK Ltd despite the fact that a license agreement regarding this was with M/s Omnipol, a Czech firm.
Then it was also came to lime light that the vehicles worth about Rs 5,000 crore were supplied to the Army causing undue benefit to Tatra-Sipox UK Ltd and loss to the national exchequer. Surprisingly, in its closure report, CBI has claimed that their probe does not point to the guilt of any accused in the case.
On the context of loss caused to BEML and gain to Tatra-Sipox UK Ltd during the deal, the probe agency in its closure report mentioned that during the probe the allegations were proved.
In 2010 the former Army Chief VK Singh has claimed that he was offered bribe by retired Lt General Tejinder Singh to fix a deal worth Rs 1,193 crore to supply 1,676 Tatra trucks to the Indian Army.
It was learnt that the matter was scheduled to be heard on Tuesday but the concerned judge was on leave and it was rescheduled for next Thursday. Earlier, CBI had sought time to file documents relating to the case against Ravinder Kumar Rishi, promoter of Tatra Sipox UK Limited, and others, including unnamed officials of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML), a defence PSU.
The probe agency in its closure report has claimed that allegations levelled against the accused in its FIR could not be substantiated during the subsequent investigation. CBI had earlier claimed that Tatra vehicles were procured from Tatra-Sipox UK Ltd despite the fact that a license agreement regarding this was with M/s Omnipol, a Czech firm.
Then it was also came to lime light that the vehicles worth about Rs 5,000 crore were supplied to the Army causing undue benefit to Tatra-Sipox UK Ltd and loss to the national exchequer. Surprisingly, in its closure report, CBI has claimed that their probe does not point to the guilt of any accused in the case.
On the context of loss caused to BEML and gain to Tatra-Sipox UK Ltd during the deal, the probe agency in its closure report mentioned that during the probe the allegations were proved.
In 2010 the former Army Chief VK Singh has claimed that he was offered bribe by retired Lt General Tejinder Singh to fix a deal worth Rs 1,193 crore to supply 1,676 Tatra trucks to the Indian Army.