The Supreme Court on Monday said that averments against CBI director Ranjit Sinha regarding the visitors’ logbook at his Delhi residence are “very serious” and asked him to reply within a week.
A bench led by Justice H L Dattu rejected Sinha’s argument that filing an affidavit would mean disclosing crucial facts relating to 2G spectrum probe. It said if he chose not to file an affidavit in response to the allegations against him, the court would be constrained to draw adverse inferences.
Also, the bench reminded Sinha that it was concerned with the fairness of the 2G trial since it was monitoring the cases and hence it would want to get to the root of the issue.
Meanwhile, advocate Prashant Bhushan also submitted in the court the original entry register of Sinha’s residence, claiming two unidentified persons delivered it at his house a day ago.
The court would examine Sinha’s response to the maintainability of the plea against him as well as on the merits of the allegations on Monday next week.
Sinha has been in the midst of a controversy over leaked documents that showed details of visitors, including representatives of companies involved in the 2G telecom spectrum and coal block allocation scams, meeting him at his residence.
The court had last week nixed Sinha’s plea to gag media against reporting on this issue.
Indian Express | September 8, 2014
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