CBITORegister case agßinst NDMC officials

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CBITORegister case agßinst NDMC officials
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NEW DEIHI, MARCH 24
officials of the
Delhl
Municipal
New
Coundll (NDMC) in
The CBI, pi-ebing varinus
graft gases in the conduet
of
the
Commenwealth
garnes (CWG) 2010, lt set to
convert its two
liminary
more preenquires (PEs)
related to
-
tion
tvith its probe related
to
alleged
comrnitted
(NDCC)
Centre.
cases
by Um first weeh of
April. ]lesides, the agency
Is also preparing to regis-
said
ter
was
regolar
oase
against
irregularities
in
awarding
civil and electrical works
at New fleihl City Centres
ticketing and
sponsorship -.. intoregular
a
connec-
Convention
Scurces
in
the
Cornndttee
the
agency
Organising
(OC)
Commonwenith
of
the
Garnes
ssspposed to colleet
an
estimated an,ount of ticK)
erores from the sak oftick-
IStwIiRAfT4S:I
firm.
The
pleted
ageney has cernserutins' of Hie dutte
ments i-elated go the pay-
etc itseif.
made
liowever, the agencys
probe has found that the
only two wecks before the
The
Start of the Garnes
ments
OC managed to coliertonW
agency has also tound that
t39 crores fron, ticket tale.
Sources seid,
tickets for the Garnes had
on
already been printe
Marketingand
Management (SMAM), by
Investigations into ihe
PE have reveaied that the
August 25, 2010
Sources
further
Executtve lJoard (EH) of
the Organising Comrnittee
"The agency willalso regis-
approved the ticketing policy onW In itt 2Gth meeting
held
on
September21, 2010,
to
an
hie
OH
tu
firm,
tor the
an
Spurts
sponsor-
ship",
said,
ter a regular case In tonnection with its
probe
related to sponsorship tontrauts
Australlan
Aultralian
Meanwhile,
the
HBf
is
also preparing tu convei't
4ts PE, registored to probe
eommitted
irregularithes
In awarding civil and electrical
worigs
at
NDCCs
Convention
esse
by
April.
Centre, into
the lirst
'Probe
a
weck of
the
by
agency Las reveoled that
contracts
(wortis
iG
erores) related IF) clvii ansi
eicetrical
works
tore
given te a private company
in gross violation of rules
anti
The
regulations.
sgoncy has also souglst
sanetion
prosocution
againstsome
of
Ilse
regard,"
lon otticiala
in Ihis
NDMC
somccs
sah!.
Minister for CBI probe,
RASHME SEHGAL
Despite
10
transfers in five
years aM twa presidential
arders
issued
in
bis
favour, the case of whistleblower Indian Forest eft,cer Sanjiv Chaturvedi is
getting more and more
curiQus.
The
Central
Vigilance
(CVC)
Cominission
had
written to the ministry of
environment and forests
(MoEF) in 2011 that since
the GB! was willing to
probe the plantation and
other
that
scams
Chaturvedi
had
the
MoEF
unearthed,
should take up 11w matter
of registration of FIR with
the state govemment.
Environment
minister
Jayanthi Natarajan wrote
to tbc Hooda govemment
to register an FIR in order
that a CBI probe be initiatod against the multiple
forestry scams in llaryana.
Ms Natarajans leUer stat
DoPT says no
tive, she replied, "The
ed: "lt has Feen declded,
with the approval of the
competont authority,
to
assign the investigation
sttu-
ation relnains the same as
earlier. There has been rio
inovement on tue rase so
far."
Chaturvedi had written
to the PMO in Mareh 2011
seeking a CBI probe into
being beyond its power).
When minister of state in
the
PMO
Narayanasany was cnntacted
CBL"
these scans. lila file had
been
forwardeil tu the
department ef personnel
for his conments on
this entire matter, he said,
(Chaturvedj)
"1-le
must folbw all procedures. If tie is
being harassed, he should
have written directly to
(I-laryana) chef nünisthe (I-Iaryana)
Vhen Ms Natarajan was
askerl
this
\Vednesday
whether the state government had initiated any
action following her direc
amt
training
(DuFT),
which wrete back reeently
to the PMO stathg that the
MOEF's demand should be
dismissed as "utra-vires" (
ter. II e cannot write directto the miEisfry of environment
unless
he is
released by the state government.
into the
allegations by
Sanjiv Chaturvecil to Um
ly
Shehla case
lie test onBJP MLA again
AGE
CORRESPONDENTS
NEW
DELHI/BHOPAL,
Zahida had allegedly very
dose relations
with the
MLA, to the extent 0! Obsession,
and
resented
his
cioseness with Masood, The
agency had also recovered
MARCH24
The CBI on Saturday conducted
a lie-detector test on
Dhruv Narayan Singh, a
BJP MLA from Bhopal, in
a personal diary from the
residence of Zahida. "From
her diary, CBI oflicials had
connectjon with
the Shehla
mm-der case. The
role of the BJP MLA is
under the scanner of the
agency
because
of
his
alleged
closeness
with
Zahida Parvez, a BhopalMasood
based interior designer and
a prime suspect hi the case.
According to sources, Mr
Singh
arrived
at
the
Central
dome to know
of several
instances
where
Zahida
had noted down her feelings
for
Mr Sing
and
Shehla
Masood
Sources sah! the agency
sleuths askecj hirn a series
of questions related to his
Forensie Science
Laboratory (CFSL) with the
CBI officials for his licdetector test at around 11.30
am and remained there for
purportee!
relationship
with Masood
and
flearly four hours. An earlier lie-detector test on Mr
Sing
on March 19 could
the latter. During the test,
Mr Singh is understood to
have denied all the allega-
not be completed because of
continuos !luctuation
in
his blood pressure.
tions against
f
suspect
Zahida, besides whether he
knew almut the murder
plan allegedly hatched by
hirn.
The probe by the agency
has already revealed that
growing
resentment
for
Masood,"
sources
said.
Masood was mvrdere
on
August 16, 2011 outside her
house 111 Koh-e-Fiza locality
in Bhopal.
Sources said the agency
has not given a clean chit to
Mr Singh. He was asked
specific questions related
to his
more than 25 teleconversations with
Zahida,
they
said.
If
required, the agency otllcials may call Mr Singh
phonic
again for
‚test.
the
lie-detector
NRHM: '2 arrested
turn approvers'
LIJCKNOW: Two Lucknowbased businessmen arrested
for their alleged involvement in
the NRHM scam are believed to
haveturned approvers. The CBI
reportedly gottheir statements
recorded before a magistrate in
a Ghaziabad on Friday. The two
men, whose identityhas been
kept secret, have reportedly
detailed the role of former
Family Welfare Minister Babu
Singh Kushwaha and the department's principal secretary
Pradip Shukla in the scam.
CBI conducts lie-detection teston MLA
NEW DELHI: The CU! on Satconducted a "lie-detec-
fluctuate, he recalm and composed
during the session, they said.
started to
urday
mained
tion test" on BJP legislator
from Bhopal, Dhruv Narayan
Singh, in connection with the
Singh may be called again
murder of ItT!
Masood.
activist Shehla
The CBI might call Singh again
Singh underwent the test for
for the lie-detection test if the
results did not prove satisfac-
several hours on Saturday at
the Central Forensic Science
tory they said.
Sources
the CBI
found that the accused ZahidaParvez had "very close relations" with the MLA and
re
sented his closeness with
During the probe,
had
Masood, they said. Parvez is
currently in judicial custody.
While analysing
tails
the call de-
of Parvez and her friend
Laboratory here as the previ-
that the MLA is "not complete-
of the CU! to carry
another accused in the
case--Saba Farooqui, sleuths
ly off-radar" in the case. However, the agency has not got any
came across some calls made
purportedly to a close aide of
evidence which points to his
Singh soon after Masood was
murdered on August 16, last
ous attempt
out "polygraph test"
on him re-
mained inconclusive
activist Shehia
on March
19, sources in the probe agency
RTI
said.
Parvez, besides whether he
knew about the murder plan
The agency asked him a seties of questions related to his
with
Zahida
purported relationship
Masood and accused
Masood
in the CIII had said
role in the murder of
allegedly hatchefl by the latter.
Unlike the last attempt
when
physical parameters of Singh
-year-old RTI
the 38-
activist.
Earliet Singh had
given con-
lie-detection test before a special court
sent to undergo the
in Indore.
and
outside her house in the
Koh-e-Fiza locality in Bhopal.
Farooqui is also languishing in
year
judicial custody.
p-ri
'Anger over Gopâlgarh probe by CBI
Special Correspondent
.JAIPIJR: Six months after indiscriminate police firing at
a mosque at Gopalgarh in
Rajasthan claimed 10 lives,
resentment is brewing here
edly
sprayed
the
mosque
role of two MLAs from the
with bullets and killed those
region,
Zahida Khan
praying
senting
Kaman constituency
inside
still
are
at
large.
only
The
against
action
taken
staff posted
the
repre-
and Anita Singh elected from
Nagar, and two others.
The
licemen on duty joined the
crowd which stormed the
mosque.
The
role
over the manner in which
the Central Bureau of Investigation has gone about with
two MLAs were camping at
Gopalgarh police station on
the day the firing occurred to
'interested in
Police Lines, while five of the
help settle
the [actual] culprits
the probe and the way the
ruling Congress has handled
CR! are Meos.
the matter.
The CRI has been accused
of ignoring crucial FIRS and
Rajasthan are peeved at the
CBI not paying heed to at
Meo
arrested
Muslims
in
by the
eastern
the Congress of showing in-
least 10 FIRs registered in
Gopalgarh, in which the fam-
sensitivity
ilies
to the victims of
violence.
The CBI,
which
investigation
took over
into the Sep-
of
the
deceased
had
named the police personnel,
Special Task Force (STF) of-
firing inci-
ficers and, most significantly,
Bharatpur
the
then
dent in the second week of
Collector Krishna Kunal and
tember 14, 2011,
October,
has
charge-
filed
Superintendent
of
Police
a
long-pending
the
also needs to be probed in a
fair and impartial manner.
at
the Gopalgarh police station
has been their shifting to the
15 accused
of
[then] Collector and the SP
But the CBI is strangely not
nailing down
of vio-
land dispute between Gujjars
lence," said Maulvi Rashid.
and Meos.
The
CIII
evidence
While collecting forensic
investigators
from
the
crime
have not spoken to them so
far and have not even counted them as witnesses in the
scene, the CBI has also re-
case. Ms. Khan belongs to the
Congress and is also a Parlia-
proof of alleged complicity
mentary Secretary, while Ms.
against
Singh is a BJP ML&
Maulvi Mohammed Rash-
community.
id of Meela Kheda madrasa
planning to meet the CBI Director in this connection
having
--
a large following in
told The Hindu
the region
-
portedly
tion
failed to pay atten-
to the
destruction of
of policemen
Meos
in the crimes
minority
the
in
Bharatpur
are
and considering taking legal
sheet
Hinglaj
strong
rival
These FIRs were registered
with charges of murder and
munities.
criminal conspiracy.
implicating the members of
on the basis of five FIRs reg"
istered with "vague allega-
In its charge-sheet filed on
March 6, the CRI kept its
the victim community as accused and not paying any at-
tinues
tions" instead of pinpointing
probe against some unidentified persons pending. Sub-
tention
here, which took a slew of
in a special court here
against 15 persons from the
the
Gujjar and Meo comIt has built its case
accused
who
actually
fired on the mosque.
Consequently, the police-
men and
villagers who alleg
Dan
sequently
Court
the
as
CR!
accused.
Special
on
Saturday
that
there
is
resentment among
Meos over the CIII allegedly
those
to
who
allegedly instigated a violent
crowd to attack th, mosque.
directed the CRI this
"There is a clinching evi-
past week to inquire into the
dence to prove that the po
action to compel the CBI to
examine the FIRS against
police officers;
The brutal violence conto be an embarrass-
ment for the ruling Congress
measures tà
placate
before the recent
elections
in
Uttar Pradesh.
Meos
Assembly
neighbouring
Lie detection test held on IE3JP MM
NEW DELHI: The CBI on, Saturday
conducted a lie-detec-
tion test on BJP MLA from
Bhopal,
Narayan
Dhruv
Singh, in connection with the
murder of RTL activist Shehia
Masood.
Mr. Singh underwent the
test for seveta! hours at the
Central
Forensic
Science
Laboratory here as the attempt
to carry out polygraph
with Ms.
Zahida
Masood and
Parve;
accused
osed
besides
they said. The CBI might call
whether he knew about the
test on him remained inconclusive on March 19, sources
in the probe agency said.
murder
The agency asked him a series Of questions rlating to
when physical parameters of
Mr. Singh started to fluctuate,
his
purported
relationship
plan
allegedly
hatched by the latter.
Unlike
the
last
during
the
session,
him again for the lie detection
test
if the
results
did not
prove satisfactory, they said.
attempt
he remained calm and
comp
The Cm sources had said
that the MLA is "not completely
--PT!
off radar" in the case.
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BMIGALORE: A CBI court on Saturday extended tifi April 3
judicial custody of former Karnataka minister
and mining
baron C Janardhana Reddy and his personal assistant
Mehfooz All Khan, arrested in connection with an illegal
mining case. The court ordered extension of judicial
custody
after the probe agency moved an application in this regard.
Associated Mining Corporation and Deccan Mining
Syndicate owned by Reddy and his wife Aruna Lakshmi
have been facing probe over charges of ifiegal mining
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of misleading court
PIONEER
NEWS SERVICE
klan in judicial
INDORE
JnvesUgation into RTI
activist
Shehia Masood's murder
took a new turn on Saturday,
with counsel for BJP MLA
Dhruv Narayan Singh (who is
a suspect) accusing the CEI of
giving wrong information to
the court.
remand till Apr 3
Indore: Shooter Irfan, who
had been arrested by Uttar
Pradesh STF from Kanpur for
the murder of Shehia
Masood, was summoned to a
special CBI court on Saturday
Pradip Gupta submitted
for
affidavit
recorded
time. He
his statements, as
Saturday,charging the investigating agency
with misrepresenting facts
related to the polygraph test of
stated by
him earlier, under
the
till April 3. Irfan hadbeen
summoned last Friday. from
an
the Special
in
CBI Court on
BJP
MLA in Delhi some
days ago.
Singh's counsel has also
sought register a case against
the CRI
officer
has
given
the
CM
till on
March 26 to
Section 164.
The court sent him to the
district jail in judicial remand
when he was in CBI remand
till March 22.
ENS
affidavit by the BW, MLA'S
counsel has rejected this claim.
The
SHEHLAMURDER
submit replies.
A few days ago,
when the
special court here sought information from the CR! on the
polygraph test, the CBI counsel said the
test had already
been
second
concerned.
Taking cognisance of the
affidavit, the Special CRI
Court
the
carried out.
However,
an
news
of
Narayan
Singh's polygraph test in Delhi was reported 10 days ago. Singh, who
reportedly underwent a threehour
test
Forensic
at
the
Central
Laboratory
on March 14, had reportedly
pledged his innocence.
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test on BJP MLA
NEW DELHI, MARCH 24
The CBI today conducted a
lie-detection test on BJP
MLA from Bhopal, Dhruv
SHEHLAMURDER
Nil actMst
Shehia Masood
Narayan Singh, in connection
(in pic) was
with the
murder of Iff!
activist Shehia Masood.
Singh underwent the test for
several hours today at the Central Forensic Science Laboratory here as the previous
attempt of theCBI to catty out
polygraph
test
on
him
remained inconclusive on
March 19, sources said. The
agency asked him a series of
questions related to his purported
relationship
with
murdered on
August 16, 2011, outside
her house in Bhopal
Masood
and accused
Zahida
Parvez, besides whether he
knew about the murder plan
allegedly hatched by the lattet
The CBI might call Singh
again for the test if the
results do not prove satisfactory.
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Lie detection test on
BJP MLA in Shehia case
NEW DELHI: The CE! on Satur-
The
agency asked
him a
Se-"
conducted a lie-detection
test on BJP MLA from Bhopal,
ries of questions relating to his
Dhruv Narayan Singh, in con-
Ms. Masood and accused Zahi-
day
with the murder of
activist ShehlaMasood.
purported relationship
nection
da Parvez,
RTI
knew
Mr. Singh underwent
the
test for several hours at the
Central
Forenlic SciezTce
oratory here
carry out
Lab-
as the attempt to
polygraph
testS
wit1
besides whetherhe
murder plan
about the
allegedly
hatched
by
thet
latter.
k
Unlike
the
last
attempt
when physical parameters of
Mr. Singh started to fluctuate,
him remained inconclusive on
he remained
Marchl9, sources in the probe
jt
agency
posed
calm and com-
during the session, they
said.- PTI
Anger over Gopalgarh. probe by CBI
only action taken against the
Special Correspondent
the. Gopalgarh
Estaffiposted at
JAIPUR:
ix months after indis-
criminat& police
mosque at
firing at a
Gopalgarh in Rajas-
than
claimed 10 lives, resentment is brewing here over the
police
station has been their
shifting
to the Police Lines,
while five of the 15 accused arby the CRI are Meos.
rested
police station on the day the
firing occurred to help settle a
nailing down the [actual] cul-
long-pending landdispute bet*een Gujjars and Meos. The
Rashid.
prits of violence," said Maulvi
ii
not
While collEting forenElã
evidence from the crime
spoken to them so far and have
not even counted them as wit-
scene, the CBI has also reportedly failed to pay attention to
have
investigators
CBI
mahner
in which the Central
Meo Muslims in eastern Rajasthan are peeved at the CR!
Bureau
of Investigation
has
not paying heed to at least 10
belongs to the Congress and is
leged complicity
probe and
FIRs registered in Gopalgarh,
also a Parliamentary
ry, while Ms. Singb
in the crimes
gone about
with the
the way the ruling Congress
has handled the matter.
The
families of
in which the
the
deceased had named the police
personnel, Special Task
ing crucial FIRs and the Con-
(STF) officers and, most signif-
gress of showing insensitivity
icantly,
to the victims of violence.
CBI, which took over
Bharatpur
imthe case.
Ms. Khan
Secreta-
is a BJP
Maulvi
of
-
Mohammed Rashid
Meela Kheda
madrasa
FIRs against police officers.
-
charges of murder and crimi-
the
has filed charge-sheet in a spe-
nal conspiracy.
community as accused and not
cial court here against 15 persons from the rival Gujjar and
In its charge-sheet filed on
March 6, the CR! kept its
paying any attention to those
who allegedly instigated a vio-
Meo communities. It has built
probe against some unidenti-
lent
its case on the basis of five
fied
mosque.
ing-the accused
fired on the
pinpoint-
who actually
mosque.
Consequently,
the
police-
Dan
accused.
as
with
registered
were
persons pending.
qüeritlythe CE!
directed
These
the
Subse-
Special Court
CR!
this
past
resentment among Meos over
the CBI allegedly implicating
of
members
crowd
"There
the
is a clinching
evi-
dence to prove thatthe policeon duty joined the crowd
men
two MLAs from the region, Za-
which stormed
representing
Ka-
victim
attack
to
week to inquire into the role of
hida Khan
the
the
mosque.
The role of the [then] Collec-
men and villagers who alleged-
man
Anita
tor and the SP also needs to be
ly sprayed
Singh elected from Nagar, and
probed in a fair, and impartial
the mosque with
bullets and killed those praying inside are still at large. The
th this connection and consid-
Saturday that there is strong
FIRs
instead of
ning to meet the CDI Director
Superintendent of Police Hin-
2011, firing incident in
the second week of October,
legations"
the mi-
nority community.
Collector Krishna Kunal and
having
ber
al-
policemen
ering
then
glaj
Flßsregisteredwith"vague
of
against
a large following in the
region
told The Hindu on
the
investigation into the Septem14,
the destruction of proof of al-
Meos in Bharatpur are plan-
MLA.
Forèe
CBI has been accUsed of ignor-
Thç
nesses
constituency
two otherè.
were
The
camping
at
and
t*o
MLAs
Gopalgarh
mannet.
But
the
Cifi
is
strangely
not
interested
in
taking
legal
to
action
compel the CDI to examine the
The brutal
viàlence contin-
ues
to be an embarrassment
for the ruling Congress here,
which took a slew of measuSs
to placate Meos before the rcent
Assembly
elections
in
neighbouring UttarPradesh.
CBI names over 2000 in
UP foodgrains scam
Dhananjay Mahapatra
I INN
and has now searched p remises of brothers of VinodKu-
New Delhi: The massive
spread of the UP foodgrain
mar Singh aka
Pandit Singh.
Vinod was a minister in
diversion scam came to the
the Mulayam government in
fore when CDI told the Su-
200aandisnowaministerin
preme Court it had filed FIRs
CBI
ministry
Akhilesh's
said: "In the case pertaining
against over 2,000 people, inclUding politicians
and pub-
lic servantsduring
its hives-
NEWTT!*DXfIItt
Akhflesh
tigations injust
five places.
No other single scam in
India's history has seen registration
of FIRs against so
places, including the premregime arealso in the dock.
Responding to anapplica-
ises of Narendra Singh and
tion filed
Vinod Kumar
by advocate Vish-
many people and this could
wanath Chaturvedi, who al-
also be worrisome for the Ak-
leged
hilesh Singh Yadav government as the list includes a
diversion
minister
in
his
council.
there
was rampant
foodgrains
of
worth Rs 2 lakh crore in the
state since the year 2002, CBI
Those who looked after the
said it had alread'
public
chargesheet against former
Samajwadi Party MLA Om
distribution system
and their associates during
the
Mayawati-headed
DSP
to district Gonda, searches
haVe been conducted in 14
Prakash
flied a
Gupta of Sitapur
Mahesh Singh, brothers of
Singh
alias
Pandit Singh, ex-minister of
Ul and 2 rniddlernenJllnan-
cers have been arrested"
The state government affidavit said the scam was being
investigated by CBI, the
Economic
Offcences
Wmg
and a SIT and that this was a
time-consuming affair.
Coalgate: FM downplays CAG findings
90%
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Faced with a. looming
over the disclosure
embarrassment
of irregularities in the allocation of
coal blocks, finance minister Pranab
Muklierjee
on
Saturday
sought to
of the
observations
cothl
ments came two
on for the last 150 years," he said.
TOl on Thursday had published
details of the CAG report whichsaid
after the PMO
issued a similar statement, partiaU
quoting from the CAG'S letter that
the latter's draftreportwas not fmal
government's failure to auction
coal blocks may have resulted in
windfall gains ITo the tune of f10.7
laich ernie topower companies, some
the
the opposition's criticism and its demand for a UBI probe into what is be-
of them PSUs.
Céntrary to
Ccalgate', Mukherjee
called
said that the report scooped by TOl
tion,
the report in questiOn
ble
on
ing
are from a stage aft&
which a drastic overhaul of the r
port ceases tobe a sfrongpossibility
finance
inthdster's
The
draft report
ing
down the findings of the auditor, aàserting that his final report
would spare the government.
Speaking agahst the backdrop of
play
are
dropped after the auditor gets a responsefrom the min&try That is the
normal practice and it has beeh go-
Mukherjee's
and was "misleading".
"I have repeatedly
(availa-
was preliminaryand expressed confidence that the final version would
times.com/)
is not preliminary It
has been in the works for the last six
not be harsh on the government.
months and takes into account the
stated
the
CAGs job is to find fault and not tq
PRACTICE RUN? Vinod Ral
praise the government and certify
explanations of the coal mlnisfry.
'Ihe draft was prepared after an
has done a good job," Mukherje
said. 'What is new if irregularities
are found out in a GAG report?" lie
asked. These concerns areaddressed
asser-
http:/itimesofindia.india-
days
"e>dt' meeting where coal ministry
officials got to put across their viewpoint in detail. The findings in the
he said, referring
the draft report publishcdby TOL.
by Parliament,
it
Ui
Shehlacase CBI conduts
lie test on BJP MIS again
Zahida had allegedly very
AGE CORRESPONDENTS
relations
with
the
NEW DELHI/BHOPAL
dose
MARCI-1 24
MLA, to the extent of obses-
The CBI on Saturday conducted a lie-detector test on
and
resented
his
eloseness with Masood. The
agency had also recovered
a personal diary from the
sion,
Dhruv Narayan Singh, a
BJP MLA from Bhopal, in
residence of Zahida. 'Trom
her diary, CBI officials had
connection with the Shehla
Masood murder case. The
role
of the
under
agency
alleged
Zahida
BJP
MLA
come to know of several
instances
where
Zahida
had noted down her feel-
is
the scanner of the
because
of
hiS
cioseness
Parvez, a
based interior
with
Bhopal-
Shehla
Masood
designer and
ings fof Mr Sing
and
growing resentment
for
said.
Masood,"
sources
Masood was mvrdere
on
the agöncy
August 16, 2011 outside her
According to sources, Mr
Singh
arrived
at
the
Central Forensie Science
sleuths asked hirn a series
of question
rebted to his
house in Koh-e-Fiza locality
in Bhopal.
purported
Laboratory (CFSL) with the
Masood and suspect
Zahida, besides whether he
Sources said the agency
has not given a clean chit to
Mr Singh. He was asked
a prime suspeet in the case.
officials for his liedetector test atäround 11.30
am and remained there for
nearly four hours. An earliCBI
lie-detector test on Mr
Sing
on March 19 could
er
not be completed because of
fluctuation in
continuos
his blood pessll'e.
Soürces said
relationship
with
knew about the murder
plan allegedly hatched by
the latter. During the test,
Mr Singh is understood to
have denied alFthe allegations against hirn.
The probe by the agency
has already
revealed
that
specific
questions related
his more than 25 telephonic conversations with
to
Zahida,
they
said.
If
the agency offiSingh
cials may call Mr
required,
again
test.
for
the lie-detector
4
Minister for CBI probe, DoPT says no
RASHME SEHGAL
Despite 10 transfers in five
yenrs and two presidentläl
erders
issued
in
bis
favour, the case of whistleblower Indian Forest offi-
cer
is
more
Sanjiv Chaturvedi
getting
inore
curious.
The
Central
and
Vigilance
had
writteh to the ministry of
environment am] forpsts
(MoEF) in 2011 that since
Commission
(CVC)
the CBI was willing to
probe the plantatior and
other
that
scams
Chaturvedi
had
unearthed,
the
MoEF
should take up the matter
of registratton ef FIR with
the state government.
Environment
minister
Jayantln Nataralan wrote
to the Hooda government
to register an FIR ffi order
that a CIII probe be initiated agairst the multiple
forestry scans in Haryana.
Ms Natarajans letter stat
-Illl.Ltt.
erl: "lt has been decided,
with the approval ofthe
to
competent authority,
assigil the investigation
into the allegations by
Saajiv Chaturvedi to the
tive, she replied, 'The situation remains the Same as
earlier. There Mc been no
movement on the oase so
far."
Chaturvedi bad written
.to the PMO in Maroh 2011
seeking a CBI probe into
these
CBI"
scams. Bis ffle had
been forwarded
tu the
department of personnel
When Ms Natarajan was
asked
this
Wednesday
whether the state government had
inittated ans'
aätion following her direc
training
(DuFT),
aral
which wrote back recently
tu the PMO stating that the
MoEF's demand should be
disiuissed as "utra-vires" (
being beyond its power).
When minister ofstate in
the
PMO
V.
Narayanasamy
was ton-
his eomrnents on
this entire matter, he saH,
tacted for
He (Chaturvedi) must folbw all procedures. 11 ha is
being harasscd.. he should
have writtcn dircctly to
the (Haryana) chief minis-
ter. lie cannot write directly to the ministry ofenvironment
unless
he
is
released by the state governmeiit."
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