Former CBI director Ranjit Sinha, who faced accusations that he held frequent meetings with the accused to influence probe into coal blocks allocations cases, on Monday told the Supreme Court that he did meet “some people”, but not “90 to 130 times”.
NGO Common Cause sought a SIT probe against Sinha stating that he abused his position during the probe. It filed a copy of the visitors’ diary of Sinha’s residence here to claim that he used to frequently meet the accused between 2013 and 2014.
Senior advocate Vikas Singh, appearing for Sinha, submitted before a three-judge bench presided over by Justice Madan B Lokur that the former CBI chief used to have an “open house” but meetings per se with people never influenced his decisions with regard to investigation.
“This kind of allegations that I had meetings (with the accused) 90 times are absurd. Why should I respond to ghosts when the petitioner is not ready to reveal the source of his information (visitors' register),” he said.
“I am not trying to say that I have not had meetings with these people,” he added.
Singh also cited Justice S J Muhopadhaya who recently in his farewell address had said that he felt no inhibitions in meetings with lawyers as he had clear conscience.
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