12-14-2008, 06:30 AM
Law Minister at the wheel in CBIâs U-turn on Mulayam case
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigationâs U-turn withdrawing its interim application in the Mulayam Singh Yadav disproportionate assets case this week came after Solicitor General Goolam E Vahanvati criticised the manner in which the agency calculated his assets and clubbed them with those of his relatives.
Vahanvatiâs six-page opinion, âacceptedâ in writing by Law Minister H R Bharadwaj and effectively demolishing the CBI case, came days after an intervention by Mulayamâs daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav (wife of son Akhilesh Yadav).
In a letter on October 27 this year, she wrote to Prithviraj Chauhan, Minister of State for Personnel & Training â the DoPT is the CBIâs administrative Ministry â asking him to take âappropriate steps in the interest of justice.â
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Compare that with its affidavit on October 26, 2007 where the CBI had said that it had completed the preliminary enquiry to ascertain whether the Yadav family owned assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.
The CBI had then said that it would file a regular case if verifications/enquires indicated commission of offence.
Surprisingly, CBIâs latest affidavit seeking withdrawal of the case makes no mention of its verifications or enquiries.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigationâs U-turn withdrawing its interim application in the Mulayam Singh Yadav disproportionate assets case this week came after Solicitor General Goolam E Vahanvati criticised the manner in which the agency calculated his assets and clubbed them with those of his relatives.
Vahanvatiâs six-page opinion, âacceptedâ in writing by Law Minister H R Bharadwaj and effectively demolishing the CBI case, came days after an intervention by Mulayamâs daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav (wife of son Akhilesh Yadav).
In a letter on October 27 this year, she wrote to Prithviraj Chauhan, Minister of State for Personnel & Training â the DoPT is the CBIâs administrative Ministry â asking him to take âappropriate steps in the interest of justice.â
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Compare that with its affidavit on October 26, 2007 where the CBI had said that it had completed the preliminary enquiry to ascertain whether the Yadav family owned assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.
The CBI had then said that it would file a regular case if verifications/enquires indicated commission of offence.
Surprisingly, CBIâs latest affidavit seeking withdrawal of the case makes no mention of its verifications or enquiries.
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