The Delhi High Court on Friday sought the response of a whistle-blower in the Vyapam recruitment scam on the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) plea to provide it with copies of documents and a pen drive that were sent to a forensic lab to examine their veracity and whether there has been any tampering of evidence as alleged by him.
Justice PS Teji issued notice to the whistle-blower, referred to as Mr X in the petition, as the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) at Hyderabad was not a party to these proceedings.
The CBI was seeking copies of the documents and the pen drive on the ground that it would help them in probing the case and verify the whistle-blower’s allegations of tampering.
The agency, through its counsel Sanjeev Bhandari, has moved the application, seeking the copies as the forensic lab has refused to provide these to them. It was on the CBI’s plea earlier that the High Court had forwarded the documents and the pen-drive to the CFSL for examination.
Mr X had approached the court for protection from arrest and interrogation in the case. The High Court had in February last year granted him the relief. The court has listed the CBI’s application for further hearing on July 11.
During the arguments on Friday, Mr X’s counsel Badar Mehmood, opposed the CBI’s plea, saying since the agency had given a clean chit to the accused in the case, why it was asking for the documents to be sent to CFSL.