SC allows reports on CBI director, whistleblower
16 Oct 2014 5:53 AM IST
Chief justice HL Dattu permitted special public prosecutor Anand Grover to file these two reports with the court’s registry, which should be furnished in a sealed cover. The matter now will come up for hearing on Thursday.
Earlier, the apex court in its previous hearing had asked Grover, who is heading the prosecution team in the special CBI court that is trying the 2G case to ascertain CBI chief’s role in the case and whether the identity of the whistle-blower could be made public or not. Sources said Grover in his yet-to-be submitted report has believed to have suggested there is no need for lawyer Prashant Bhushan to reveal the whistle-blower’s identity who gave the guest entry diary of Sinha’s residence to him.
Sinha landed in the controversy after the visitor’s diary at Sinha’s residence revealed he met two top Reliance ADAG officials nearly 50 times in the last one year. It is also being charged that the visits coincided with Sinha’s alleged attempt to file an affidavit which sought to ‘defuse’ the charges against the company in the 2G scam. The Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) in a petition filed before the Supreme Court on 2 September claimed that visitors’ entry register at Sinha’s residence is ‘very disturbing’ and contains ‘explosive material’ in 2G spectrum allocation scam against Reliance Telecom. The court asked CPIL counsel Prashant Bhushan, a senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader, to place the ‘explosive material’ before it so that it can go through it and examine the issue by Thursday.
While going through Sinha’s visitors’ list, it was revealed that not only officials of Ambanis but other influential persons including Kanpur-based meat exporter and alleged Hawala operator Moin Qureshi had also visited his residence at least 90 times in the last one and half years. Others who had visited Sinha’s residence included Devendra Darda, son of Congress MP from Yavatmal, Vijay Darda. Vijay is an accused in coal scam along with his brother Rajendra Darda.
Earlier, the apex court in its previous hearing had asked Grover, who is heading the prosecution team in the special CBI court that is trying the 2G case to ascertain CBI chief’s role in the case and whether the identity of the whistle-blower could be made public or not. Sources said Grover in his yet-to-be submitted report has believed to have suggested there is no need for lawyer Prashant Bhushan to reveal the whistle-blower’s identity who gave the guest entry diary of Sinha’s residence to him.
Sinha landed in the controversy after the visitor’s diary at Sinha’s residence revealed he met two top Reliance ADAG officials nearly 50 times in the last one year. It is also being charged that the visits coincided with Sinha’s alleged attempt to file an affidavit which sought to ‘defuse’ the charges against the company in the 2G scam. The Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) in a petition filed before the Supreme Court on 2 September claimed that visitors’ entry register at Sinha’s residence is ‘very disturbing’ and contains ‘explosive material’ in 2G spectrum allocation scam against Reliance Telecom. The court asked CPIL counsel Prashant Bhushan, a senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader, to place the ‘explosive material’ before it so that it can go through it and examine the issue by Thursday.
While going through Sinha’s visitors’ list, it was revealed that not only officials of Ambanis but other influential persons including Kanpur-based meat exporter and alleged Hawala operator Moin Qureshi had also visited his residence at least 90 times in the last one and half years. Others who had visited Sinha’s residence included Devendra Darda, son of Congress MP from Yavatmal, Vijay Darda. Vijay is an accused in coal scam along with his brother Rajendra Darda.
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