<p>A Bench of Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly assured the council for the NGO CPIL Prashant Bhushan that it would hear his plea to constitute the expert committee to assist the Court in monitoring the probe. <br /><br />However, senior counsel K K Venugopal, appearing for the CBI, opposed the plea, contending that the procedure followed in the case has been strange, after chargesheets have been filed against the accused. <br /><br />The NGO had alleged CBI was not doing a fair and impartial investigation irrespective of the status of the person under investigation, as directed by the apex Court in its December 16, 2010 order.<br /><br /> “Thus, it is essential that either two or three persons with good reputation and experience be appointed to over-see and monitor the CBI investigation on a day-to-day basis (as has been done in black money case) or the entire investigation be handed over to an SIT.”<br /><br />“If this is not done, then the petitioners fear that this case might suffer the same fate as that of other court-monitored investigations like the hawala case where all the accused were acquitted due to slipshod investigations and weak charge sheets by CBI or the recent cash-for-votes scandal where the real beneficiaries so far appear to have got away,” the NGO said in the application. <br /><br />Bhushan alleged that CBI has not been honest and influential people like ADAG Chairman Anil Ambani and others have not been chargesheeted.</p>
<p>A Bench of Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly assured the council for the NGO CPIL Prashant Bhushan that it would hear his plea to constitute the expert committee to assist the Court in monitoring the probe. <br /><br />However, senior counsel K K Venugopal, appearing for the CBI, opposed the plea, contending that the procedure followed in the case has been strange, after chargesheets have been filed against the accused. <br /><br />The NGO had alleged CBI was not doing a fair and impartial investigation irrespective of the status of the person under investigation, as directed by the apex Court in its December 16, 2010 order.<br /><br /> “Thus, it is essential that either two or three persons with good reputation and experience be appointed to over-see and monitor the CBI investigation on a day-to-day basis (as has been done in black money case) or the entire investigation be handed over to an SIT.”<br /><br />“If this is not done, then the petitioners fear that this case might suffer the same fate as that of other court-monitored investigations like the hawala case where all the accused were acquitted due to slipshod investigations and weak charge sheets by CBI or the recent cash-for-votes scandal where the real beneficiaries so far appear to have got away,” the NGO said in the application. <br /><br />Bhushan alleged that CBI has not been honest and influential people like ADAG Chairman Anil Ambani and others have not been chargesheeted.</p>
