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Wednesday August 24, 2011 08:04:01 PM,
IANS
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New
Delhi:
Delhi Police Wednesday filed a chargesheet in a court here against
six people, including Rajya Sabha member and former Samajwadi
Party leader Amar Singh, in the cash-for-votes scandal that rocked
parliament during a trust vote in 2008.
The chargesheet, filed before Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal,
also named former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs Fagan Singh
Kulaste and Mahavir Bhagora, Amar Singh's former aide Sanjeev
Saxena, arrested middleman Sohail Hindustani and Sudheendra
Kulkarani, a former associate of BJP leader L.K. Advani.
Police have also sought sanction for booking BJP MP Ashok Argal.
"For requisite prosecution, sanction in respect of Ashok Argal is
being sought from the competent authority...after that the
supplementary chargesheet shall be filed," the chargesheet said.
"There is concrete evidence against Amar Singh. He is the prime
accused who played the major role in the scam. The total deal was
of around Rs.9 crore," said the 80-page chargesheet.
There are 54 witnesses in this case, including CNN-IBN chief
Rajdeep Sardesai, police said.
On July 22, 2008, three BJP MPs waved wads of currency notes in
the Lok Sabha ahead of a trust vote, alleging they were given the
money to vote in favour of the Manmohan Singh government.
They have been charged with various offences under the Prevention
of Corruption Act and the penal provision for criminal conspiracy.
Police secured permission from Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari
before chargesheeting Amar Singh, while a letter has been sent to
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar seeking permission to charge Argal,
police said.
The court will take up the chargesheet Thursday.
Slammed by the Supreme Court for a shoddy probe into the scandal,
police made the first arrest in the case - that of Saxena - July
17.
The case was registered in 2009 on the recommendation of a
parliamentary panel which probed the scandal.
Ahead of the trust vote, Saxena was reportedly introduced to Argal,
Kulaste and Bhagora as a secretary of Amar Singh. He was caught on
camera paying them money.
The trust vote was necessitated after the Left parties withdrew
support to the government over the India-US civilian nuclear
agreement.
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