Trouble brews for CBI director over meeting 2G accused

September 4, 2014

Ranjit SinhaNew Delhi, Sep 4: CBI Director Ranjit Sinha appears to be in trouble as he may have a tough time in the Supreme Court on Thursday while explaining the “frequent visits to his residence” by top corporate honchos and businessmen accused in 2G and coal scam cases.

Sinha flatly denied any wrongdoing and termed fake the visitors’ register submitted in the Supreme Court by lawyer Prashant Bhushan, who approached the apex court seeking removal of Sinha from monitoring the 2G case. The veracity of the visitors’ diary could not be independently verified.

The diary purportedly contains the names of Anil Ambani’s aides Tony Jesudasan and A N Sethuraman, and meat exporter Moin Qureshi. Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (RADAG) is an accused in the 2G scam case, while Qureshi is under the scanner of the Income Tax Department.

“The register (submitted by Bhushan) is fake, I have two registers that are maintained by the police,” Sinha was quoted as saying by a TV channel. Sinha also said he had met Reliance officials. “But have I shown favour to anyone?” he asked.

The CBI had, on Tuesday, issued a statement denying any illegal conduct by its director. The Supreme Court will examine the “diary” and its contents on Thursday.

The Aam Aadmi Party, in which Bhushan is a senior functionary, demanded the immediate suspension of Sinha for compromising the agency’s impartiality through his unbecoming behaviour of “holding secret meetings”.

“The diary contains several hundred pages in which there are several thousands of hand written entries. Now, for the director to deny the existence of such a diary shows (his) desperation to try and get time. This can be authenticated through a probe. It will not take more than five minutes. Just ask the guards who made the entries,” Bhushan said.

The issue snowballed into a controversy with a report on a newspaper’s website and Bhushan informing the Supreme Court that he has come across “disturbing and explosive” materials relating to Sinha’s frequent meetings with RADAG officials and other accused at his residence.

Sinha purportedly met two officials of RADAG 50 times in 15 months (between May 2013 and August 2014) at his official residence 2, Janpath, here. Sinha is already under fire from the Supreme Court in connection with the ongoing trial in the 2G scam case.

Two names are mentioned incompletely in the diary like Tony, Toni, Toni+Sir, Raman, Setu, Setu Raman and Toni+Setu. The registration numbers of the cars in which they arrived were also recorded.

Qureshi also visited Sinha on several occasions along with former director of CBI, A P Singh, now a member of the Union Public Service Commission. He visited Sinha at least 90 times in 15 months, the report claimed, adding that he seems to have been Sinha’s family friend.

Qureshi and wife were mentioned as Kureshi, Muin Kureshi, Kureshiji, Kureshi1, Kureshiwife, Kureshi (madam), written both in English and Hindi in the register.

Qureshi even sent his tailor and car to Sinha’s residence at times, the report claimed.

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January 24,2020

New Delhi, Jan 24: The Election Commission of India on Friday told the Supreme Court that its 2018 direction asking poll candidates to declare their criminal antecedents in electronic and print media has not helped curb criminalisation of politics. The poll panel suggested that instead of asking candidates to declare criminal antecedents in the media, political parties should be asked not to give tickets to candidates with criminal background.

A bench of Justices R F Nariman and S Ravindra Bhat asked the ECI to come up with a framework within one week which can help curb criminalisation of politics in nation's interest.

The top court asked the petitioner BJP leader and advocate Ashiwini Upadhyay and the poll panel to sit together and come up with suggestions which would help him in curbing criminalisation of politics.

In September 2018, a five-judge Constitution bench had unanimously held that all candidates will have to declare their criminal antecedents to the Election Commission before contesting polls and had called for a wider publicity, through print and electronic media about antecedents of candidates.

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Satya Vishwasi
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Saturday, 25 Jan 2020

What about those criminals who were already in parliament and vidahan sabhas? shall the ECI cancel their positions?

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January 18,2020

Jan 18: Days after the arrest of Deputy SP Davinder Singh along with two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, Shiv Sena on Saturday questioned the role of police in the Kashmir Valley.

"Cross border infiltration is ongoing in Kashmir. But the police machinery is being used to help the terrorists in Kashmir to safely cross the border (to Pakistan) and a President's medal awarded Deputy SP was arrested for doing so. In Kashmir (it seems), the government is using the police for some other purposes, what will the country's Home Ministry say if somebody has a doubt in connection with the Pulwama attacks," Sena mouthpiece, Saamna, read.

This was in reference to the incident in which Jammu and Kashmir police intercepted a vehicle on Sunday and arrested DySP Davinder Singh along with two top Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, who were travelling together.

The Sena mouthpiece asserted that the impact and acceptance of the Centre removing Article 370 should be visible "through the people" during the upcoming Republic Day celebrations.

"Jammu and Kashmir is now a Union Territory. It is being ruled by the Centre through President's Rule. The government had removed Article 370 in a historic decision...The joy and excitement in the people over the removal of 370 should be visible in the Republic Day celebrations this time. The tricolour should be seen flying over all houses in Kashmir, it is the least that can be expected," it added.

The Sena mouthpiece further said that with the arrest of terrorists in the recent days, it hoped that "Republic Day will be celebrated safely in Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir".

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