The Central Bureau of Investigation is expected to file another case of perjury in the coal block allocation scam case against those who, in a sworn affidavit to the Supreme Court, made “intentional false statement” against the agency chief, Ranjit Sinha.
The agency had earlier filed a case of perjury against the non-government organisation and its legal representative for making “malicious, deliberate and intentional false statements” in connection with the 2G Spectrum case.
While denying the existence of any such hand-written visitors’register, the CBI chief conceded that he had met some of those named. “I have the moral courage to accept that I had met them. However, it does not at all mean that I extended undue favours to them,” he said.
While the agency suspects that the diary in question was forged as part of a conspiracy, preliminary findings have revealed that "several of the entries showed that the visitors had met Mr. Sinha when he was on a trip to Europe along with his wife and his daughter was away with her husband in Chhattisgarh".
“Then there are entries suggesting that the whole day the CBI Director remained at home, instead of being in office, just receiving visitors. Multiple entries have been made to show that a person visited the Director’s residence on several occasions in a short span of time. It is patently false,”said a CBI official.
The 310-page logbook submitted to the Supreme Court purportedly records details of the visitors to the 2 Janpath official residence of Mr. Sinha in 2013 and 2014.
Through an application, NGO Common Cause and its lawyer Prashant Bhushan have informed the apex court that it was a “trusted whistleblower” who brought to Mr. Bhushan’s notice entries in the visitors’register maintained at Mr. Sinha’s residence.
The application also sought recusal of the CBI chief from all the probes and prosecutions in the coal block allocations cases.
