Enforcement Directorate Joint Director Rajeshwar Singh, probing the Aircel-Maxis money laundering case, has moved the Supreme Court claiming he has been harassed with frivolous allegations indirectly by people with vested interest in the 2G spectrum allocation scam.
Mr. Singh has filed a criminal contempt plea against Rajneesh Kapur, who had recently moved the top court alleging that he possessed disproportionate assets.
Mr. Singh said the allegations levelled against him in Mr. Kapur’s petition were not new. He said similar charges of improper conduct and disproportionate assets were made about seven years ago. He said the ED, the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Central Vigilance Commission had given him a clean chit after a probe was conducted.
Mr. Singh, nominated by the Supreme Court as the lead ED investigating officer in the 2G case a few years ago, said Mr. Kapur’s allegations against him were a “brazen attempt to delay the completion of the 2G spectrum case and the Aircel-Maxis case.”
He said the probe had “irked a sizeable number of individuals, corporate lobbyists and corrupt and dishonest persons who have time and again filed false, frivolous and motivated complaints against him.”
He said the top court’s March order to complete the probe in the Aircel-Maxis case in six months was the trigger for the latest allegations of misconduct being levelled against him.
