Court for fresh probe in cash-for-vote scam
16 Oct 2012 8:25 AM IST
A lower court in Delhi, hearing the cash-for-vote scam, has pulled up the investigating agencies for leaving some questions unanswered in the charge-sheet they have filed in the court. It ordered a further probe into the 2008 scam to 'unearth the hidden truth' in the case. It has asked police to trace the source of money and conduct the probe from all possible angles and file an additional charge sheet in the case within six weeks.
The Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh, the Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP] leader L K Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni and two BJP leaders – Faggan Singh Kulaste and Ashok Argal – have been charged in the case, which had taken place during the trust vote in Parliament after the Left parties withdrew support from the government.
The court directed the police to carry out fair and impartial investigation without leaving any loopholes to instil confidence in public.
Allowing the former BJP MP Kulaste's plea, which sought direction to police for tracing the source of the money involved in the case, the special judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal said, 'The investigating agency is reminded of their undertaking and the direction of Supreme Court of India contained in the order dated September 2, 2011, to find the source of money,' said the court.
The court took note of the fact that the police made no efforts to trace a yellow-shirted man by publishing a look-out notice in any news paper, who, according to Kulaste, had actively used his mobile phone to contact the then Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh from the co-accused BJP MP Ashok Argal's house, as seen on the recorded sting CDs.
The Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh, the Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP] leader L K Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni and two BJP leaders – Faggan Singh Kulaste and Ashok Argal – have been charged in the case, which had taken place during the trust vote in Parliament after the Left parties withdrew support from the government.
The court directed the police to carry out fair and impartial investigation without leaving any loopholes to instil confidence in public.
Allowing the former BJP MP Kulaste's plea, which sought direction to police for tracing the source of the money involved in the case, the special judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal said, 'The investigating agency is reminded of their undertaking and the direction of Supreme Court of India contained in the order dated September 2, 2011, to find the source of money,' said the court.
The court took note of the fact that the police made no efforts to trace a yellow-shirted man by publishing a look-out notice in any news paper, who, according to Kulaste, had actively used his mobile phone to contact the then Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh from the co-accused BJP MP Ashok Argal's house, as seen on the recorded sting CDs.
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