Centre may order SIT probe against Sinha
22 Nov 2014 6:03 AM IST
It was CPIL which had filed a petition before the Supreme Court on 2 September claiming that visitors’ entry register at Sinha’s residence was ‘very disturbing’ and contained ‘explosive material’ in 2G spectrum allocation scam against Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG)-owned Reliance Telecom. Based on CPIL’s plea, the apex court removed Sinha from 2G scam probe.
Additional Director RK Dutta has since taken over as the head of 2G probe. A 1981-batch IPS officer from the Karnataka cadre, Dutta is the overall in-charge of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of the agency which is probing the 2G cases. Initially there are speculations that special director Anil Sinha who is the number two after the director will oversee the probe.
Speaking to the Millennium Post CPIL’s lawyer and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Prashant Bhushan said, ‘We welcomed the decision taken by the apex court. On 8 December, we are going to file a plea before the court to form a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for a thorough investigation against Sinha and his meeting with some of the influential people involved in scams. Though he will retire by that time but this should not make the government complacent to initiate a probe against him.’
He said, ‘The government should be more active in this case and they should immediately remove him from the post of CBI Director. The matter does not end here and we will certainly want a SIT probe against him. People should know the truth.’
‘Why the government is not doing anything for his removal. Judicially cannot interfere in all matters, it is the job of the government to take action against him immediately and barred from probing all the scams apart from 2G scam,’ he added.
Meanwhile, Sinha has made it clear that he was not going to challenge the apex court’s order by filing a review petition. ‘I will obey the court order issued by a bench headed by the Chief Justice of India. I am not embarrassed by the order, which bars me from the investigation and prosecution of the 2G scam case,’ he said in a media statement amidst the speculation that he might quit office.
Under attack for not acting against Sinha, BJP said they (Congress) picked Sinha (during UPA regime) to head the CBI despite the then leaders of opposition in both the Houses, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, warning against the decision. Experts feel that his removal will not be an easy task after the SC order in the Jain hawala case, the CBI director had been given a fixed tenure to serve for 2 years from the date of his appointment. At the most the government can order him (Sinha) to proceed on leave in light of the SC’s order expressing no faith in him in the 2G case investigation.
The new CBI director cannot be appointed till the Lokpal Act is amended. However, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi has advised Centre that appointment can be done without LoP in Lok Sabha.
Additional Director RK Dutta has since taken over as the head of 2G probe. A 1981-batch IPS officer from the Karnataka cadre, Dutta is the overall in-charge of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of the agency which is probing the 2G cases. Initially there are speculations that special director Anil Sinha who is the number two after the director will oversee the probe.
Speaking to the Millennium Post CPIL’s lawyer and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Prashant Bhushan said, ‘We welcomed the decision taken by the apex court. On 8 December, we are going to file a plea before the court to form a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for a thorough investigation against Sinha and his meeting with some of the influential people involved in scams. Though he will retire by that time but this should not make the government complacent to initiate a probe against him.’
He said, ‘The government should be more active in this case and they should immediately remove him from the post of CBI Director. The matter does not end here and we will certainly want a SIT probe against him. People should know the truth.’
‘Why the government is not doing anything for his removal. Judicially cannot interfere in all matters, it is the job of the government to take action against him immediately and barred from probing all the scams apart from 2G scam,’ he added.
Meanwhile, Sinha has made it clear that he was not going to challenge the apex court’s order by filing a review petition. ‘I will obey the court order issued by a bench headed by the Chief Justice of India. I am not embarrassed by the order, which bars me from the investigation and prosecution of the 2G scam case,’ he said in a media statement amidst the speculation that he might quit office.
Under attack for not acting against Sinha, BJP said they (Congress) picked Sinha (during UPA regime) to head the CBI despite the then leaders of opposition in both the Houses, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, warning against the decision. Experts feel that his removal will not be an easy task after the SC order in the Jain hawala case, the CBI director had been given a fixed tenure to serve for 2 years from the date of his appointment. At the most the government can order him (Sinha) to proceed on leave in light of the SC’s order expressing no faith in him in the 2G case investigation.
The new CBI director cannot be appointed till the Lokpal Act is amended. However, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi has advised Centre that appointment can be done without LoP in Lok Sabha.
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