Ready to be prosecuted if charge against CBI boss is wrong: Bhushan
20 Nov 2014 4:00 AM IST
Asking a bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu to order inquiry and take action against the top cop for allegedly meeting various accused of 2G and coal block allocation scam and ‘interfering’ in the probe, they said that they are ready to face the ‘consequences’ if the information provided to the court turns out to be false.
‘We would face prosecution. I am saying so without looking at them. They must face consequences. They have forfeited the right to defence on the ground that the information was given to him by someone else,’ senior advocate Dushyant Dave, appearing for Bhushan and the NGO’s secretary Kamini Jaiswal said.
Countering the submission of Sinha’s counsel Vikas Singh that Bhushan must reveal the name of whistleblower who supplied the documents, Dave submitted that the court can take cognisance of such information without knowing the source.
Dave submitted that the information provided against the Director needs to be probed and the court should not insist on disclosure of the whistleblower’s name.
Expressing inability to disclose the whistleblower’s name, he said, ‘Trust (of whistleblower) is sacrosanct and if it is broken then nobody would come forward to give information’.
Singh, however, insisted that such disclosure is a must before the court proceeds with the matter and alleged that there has been move on the part of Bhushan to destroy the institution of CBI by making false allegations against its director.
He said that CBI director, who is demitting office on 2 December, never overruled the opinion of its investigating officer and other officers in 2G scam and the trail of money abroad in the scam was probed only on his direction.
‘We would face prosecution. I am saying so without looking at them. They must face consequences. They have forfeited the right to defence on the ground that the information was given to him by someone else,’ senior advocate Dushyant Dave, appearing for Bhushan and the NGO’s secretary Kamini Jaiswal said.
Countering the submission of Sinha’s counsel Vikas Singh that Bhushan must reveal the name of whistleblower who supplied the documents, Dave submitted that the court can take cognisance of such information without knowing the source.
Dave submitted that the information provided against the Director needs to be probed and the court should not insist on disclosure of the whistleblower’s name.
Expressing inability to disclose the whistleblower’s name, he said, ‘Trust (of whistleblower) is sacrosanct and if it is broken then nobody would come forward to give information’.
Singh, however, insisted that such disclosure is a must before the court proceeds with the matter and alleged that there has been move on the part of Bhushan to destroy the institution of CBI by making false allegations against its director.
He said that CBI director, who is demitting office on 2 December, never overruled the opinion of its investigating officer and other officers in 2G scam and the trail of money abroad in the scam was probed only on his direction.
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