AAP DEMANDS IMMEDIATE RESIGNATION OF PRIME MINISTER, LAW MINISTER, ATTORNEY
GENERAL AND PMO OFFICIALS
- Demands setting up of SIT for investigating into Coal Gate Scam
Media has today reported that in the controversial Coalgate scam which is being
investigated by CBI currently, the Government had vetted the status report before
it was filed by the CBI in the Supreme Court.
In the last hearing held on March 12, Prashant Bhushan had made the plea
that since the investigation of the Coalgate scam involves inquiring into the
role of Prime Minister and other Cabinet Ministers, therefore CBI would not be
able to investigate into it independently because it is directly controlled by
them. The petition in the case has been filed by Prashant Bhushan on behalf of Centre
for Public Interest Litigation and Common Cause.
The CBI had filed the status report the previous day of the hearing. On
this, the court observed that we hope that the CBI is not sharing the reports
with the government. On this, Attorney General Vahanvati representing the Government
stated that even he had not seen the status report, what to say of the Government.
Interestingly, the Court asked the CBI Director Ranjit Sinha to file his own affidavit
stating that the status report has not be shared and would not be shared with the
government.
It now transpires from the Indian Express report that not only was the status
report shared with the Law Minister and PMO but the report had been diluted at
their instance.
However, what the Express report does not mention is the reported fact that
the Attorney General was himself present in this meeting at the Law Minster’s office,
where this report was discussed and diluted. Also, what this report does not
mention is the fact that the DIG of the CBI who was incharge of this
investigation, Ravikant was transferred out of the CBI soon after the last
hearing was held in the Supreme Court.
All this shows, why the government is not willing to let go of their control
of the CBI at any cost because an independent CBI under an independent Lokpal
would result in more than half of present cabinet going to jail and prevent the
Government from pressurising the leader of various parties by alternately
pushing and soft peddling CBI investigations against them.
This brazen interference in the Coalgate investigation by this government,
an investigation being currently monitored by the Supreme Court shows the
desperation of this government and requires the immediate sacking of the Law Minister
and the Attorney General, apart from officials of the PMO. In fact, it requires
the resignation of the PM himself. In any case, these facts make out an
unanswerable case for an independent SIT in the Coalgate scam. Aam Aadmi Party
demands setting up of SIT for investigating the allegations made against
various Ministers including PM in the Coalgate scam. We also once again demand
that the CBI should be made independent of the Government by placing it under
an independent Lokpal in the manner proposed in the Jan Lokpal Bill.
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