Cash-for-vote scandal: SP, BJP MPs questioned
Monday July 25, 2011 08:47:15 PM,
IANS
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Cash-for-votes scam: Amar Singh quizzed for four hours
Rajya Sabha MP and former Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Amar
Singh was Friday questioned for nearly four hours by the Delhi
Police in connection with the alleged bribery of three
parliamentarians during the 2008 trust vote
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New Delhi: Samajwadi
Party MP Rewati Raman Singh and Bharatiya Janata Party MP Ashok
Argal were Monday separately questioned in the 2008 parliamentary
cash-for-vote scam. While Singh denied he had bribed three BJP MPs
ahead of the trust vote, Argal said he had been approached by the
former.
While Rewati Raman Singh was questioned on the alleged calls he
received from former BJP Yuva Morcha member Suhail Hindustani to
strike a deal with BJP MPs before the trust vote in the Lok Sabha,
Argal was grilled on how he came in touch with Singh and who paid
the bribe money.
Singh was questioned in the morning, and Argal, who was allegedly
offered the bribe, arrived at the Delhi Police Crime Branch office
at 4 p.m.
Singh, an MP from Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, arrived at the
inter-state cell of the Crime Branch in New Delhi's Chanakyapuri
at 11.45 a.m. He was questioned for around 90 minutes by the Crime
Branch team led by Deputy Commissioner of Police Ashok Chand.
"He was questioned for allegedly bribing the three BJP MPs. He,
however, refuted the charges and said that he met the three BJP
leaders on account of their wanting to join the SP," said a
source, adding that he also said that he never spoke to Suhail
Hindustani.
"I have told police what I had said before the parliamentary
committee. The conspiracy behind the cash for vote has to be
exposed," Singh said after the questioning.
The Saamajwadi MP had told the parliamentary committee that the
BJP MPs met him on account of wanting to join the Samajwadi Party.
However, Argal, who was also grilled for around 90 minutes, told
police that it was the other way round and that Singh approached
him. "He alleged that Rewati Raman Singh will have to explain what
was he doing at his house on the midnight of July 21 and 22,"
added the source.
Argal, after the questioning, said why would he join the SP or
Congress. "I will die as a BJP worker. My father was jailed for 19
months during Emergency. Then why should I join the Congress or
the BJP? No such question arises," he said.
Argal stressed that he appeared before the police responding to a
summons and expected that the probe will be on the right path. "I
am being questioned after police had given a clean chit to the
Congress and SP leaders. After the probe, the truth will prevail,"
he said.
The BJP MPs -- Argal, Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Bhagora --
had claimed that Singh first contacted them on behalf of the then
Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, whom they met later.
Sanjeev Saxena, a former aide of Amar Singh, then delivered an
advance sum of Rs.1 crore.
Earlier, Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh was grilled for nearly four
hours July 22 over the alleged bribery of three BJP lawmakers
during the 2008 trust vote.
Before Amar Singh, both Saxena and Hindustani were questioned and
then arrested. They are in jail in connection with the alleged
scam.
Saxena alleged that Amar Singh, then with the Samajwadi Party, had
provided Rs.1 crore for buying the support of three BJP MPs in the
trust vote the Manmohan Singh government sought in 2008. Wads of
currency notes were shown in the Lok Sabha July 22, 2008, minutes
before the vote was to take place.
Hindustani, who allegedly played the 'liaison man' as claimed by
police between the SP leader and the BJP MPs, also levelled the
same allegations against Amar Singh.
The investigation into the case was speeded up after the Supreme
Court last week slammed Delhi Police for their tardy approach in
the case.
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