A day earlier, Vijay Nair, accused and former AAP communications in-charge, filed fresh plea before Delhi HC seeking to challenge CBI’s revision plea on grounds of non-maintainability.
Home ministry nod to CBI to take over investigation came last year. Both cases were in cold storage for nearly a year before agency lodged its own FIRs this month.
In FIR, CBI says case taken up after Directorate General of Vigilance found ‘sufficient corroborative evidence’ supporting bribery charge against officer by Aalaya Jewel Industry.
Convicts include a President’s Police Medal winner currently serving in CBI & a retired officer. Court noted they misused power to raid and arrest complainant Ashok Kumar Aggarwal.
In his affidavit, Kejriwal pointed out that advocates Ishaan and Shambhavi Sharma, who happen to be the son and daughter of Justice Kanta Sharma, have been empanelled by the Centre.
It took four agencies, including the CBI, and 17 years to get a conviction against an art gallery owner who was caught trying to smuggle shawls made from the endangered Tibetan antelope.
AAP supremo & Delhi ex-CM cites RTI reply to say that Justice Kanta's son and daughter are empanelled lawyers of central govt, which amplifies 'apprehension of bias'.
CBI files FIR after case lodged in Feb by Haryana SV&ABC involving accounts in IDFC First Bank, AU Small Finance Bank. State flags ‘organised fraud’ with potential cross-border trails.
If successful, its exit would mark the first observed passage by an India-linked tanker since a weeks-old US blockade of ships tied to Iran began, pushing Hormuz transits to nearly zero.
Historically, and instinctively, India has seen threats emerging from the west and the north, from Pakistan and China. The east has received less attention.
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