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2G case: SC to hear plea expert committee

Last Updated 08 September 2011, 18:24 IST

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.

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.

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.

 “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.”

“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.

Bhushan alleged that CBI has not been honest and influential people like ADAG Chairman Anil Ambani and others have not been chargesheeted.

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(Published 08 September 2011, 18:24 IST)

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