New Delhi, March 29: The CBI will soon question an aide of Amar Singh in connection with the forgery of a report which purportedly showed an agency official opining that Mulayam Singh Yadav had been "framed" in the disproportionate assets case.
CBI sources said today the aide, who is close to Amar
Singh, will be called to the CBI headquarters soon for
questioning after the agency got evidence that the documents,
circulated in media, had been handed over by him.
The CBI had registered a case against unknown persons
after a report appeared in media citing the 17-page "internal
note" which claimed that the agency officials including the
Deputy Inspector General Tillottama Varma was of the opinion
that Yadav had been framed up in the case.
CBI Director Ashwani Kumar has already termed the report
as "false, fabricated and forged".
"In some newspapers and news channels such documents
have come which we feel is not right. They are false,
fabricated and forged.
"We are probing to find out who gave, how did it reach
the media and by whom was it forged. This is being probed and
the report will be presented in the Supreme Court," the CBI
Director had said.
During the investigations, the CBI found that the
signatures of Varma on the so-called 17-page document had been
forged. This has also been certified by the Government
Examiner of Questioned Documents and handwriting experts.
The CBI, after finishing the investigations in the case,
will inform the Supreme Court about the findings, they said.
News reports had claimed in February this year that the
agency, in an internal note, had already prepared the ground
for burying the politically sensitive assets case against
Mulayam, by admitting in effect that it was a frame-up.
The reports had quoted an alleged 17-page document
prepared by Varma claiming that no case of disproportionate
assets was made out against the former UP Chief Minister, a
contention which was denied by the CBI immediately.
CBI had been directed by the Supreme Court on March one,
2007 to investigate the alleged disproportionate assets cases
against Yadav, his son and his daughter-in-law. The apex court
gave this direction on a Public Interest Litigation filed by
an advocate Vishwanath Chaturvedi.
Bureau Report
