AAP DEMANDS IMMEDIATE RESIGNATION OF PRIME MINISTER, LAW MINISTER, ATTORNEY GENERAL AND PMO OFFICIALS
14 04 2013
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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