CBI quizzes Virbhadra’s son in DA case for 6 hrs

CBI sources said on Tuesday that Vikramaditya  appeared before the probe team at around 11.30 am and was questioned for nearly six hours. 

He was asked about his statement during the preliminary enquiry, in which he is understood to have claimed that some of his assets were from the money provided by his father, the sources said. They said the probe team questioned Vikramaditya on the difference in the claims made by Virbhadra and him.

“The CBI has a strong case against Virbhadra Singh, his associates and partners regarding the assets acquired in the name of his wife and children,” an agency official had said after the Chief Minister was questioned on June 9 and 10. 

The agency had initiated an inquiry, which had allegedly showed that Virbhadra Singh, while serving as a Union minister between 2009 and 2012 in the UPA government, had accumulated assets worth Rs 6.03 crore (approx) in his and his family’s name, which were found to be disproportionate to his known sources of income, the probe agency had said.

The FIR filed in a designated court in Delhi under the Prevention of Corruption Act has named Singh, his wife Pratibha, LIC agent Anand Chauhan and owner of Universal Apple Associates Limited Chunni Lal Chauhan as accused in the case.

Virbhadra has strongly refuted the allegations. A CBI spokesperson had alleged that Virbhadra had invested his unaccounted income in LIC policies in his name and in the name of his wife and other family members through a private person by showing the same as agricultural income.