New Delhi: Now, Criminal Complaint against Karnataka Governor
Daijiworld Media Network
New Delhi, Oct 18: Hansraj Bhardwaj, Governor of Karnataka and erstwhile law minister in the union government, and five others, were named by a person in a criminal complaint filed against them in the Tilak Marg police station here on Monday October 17.
Bhardwaj has been accused of being party to the decision of then UPA-led union government to drop a case of disproportionate assets against Mulayam Singh Yadav and his family members, in exchange for favours shown by the Samajwadi Party to support the government in the crucial trust vote in 2008.
The complainant, Vishwanath Chaturvedi, a Supreme Court lawyer, has also named the then minister of state for personnel affairs and present Maharashtra Chief Minister, Prithviraj Chavan, former DIG of CBI, Tilottama Verma, assistant commissioner, H C Avasthi, and the then solicitor general, E Vahanvati, as co-conspirators.
Chaturvedi says that an interim application was filed in Supreme Court, to free the case against Mulayam Singh Yadav from out of the ambit of CBI inquiry in November 2007. He says that the interim application was moved at the behest of then law minister, Hansraj Bhardwaj.
Central Bureau of Investigation probe had been ordered in the above case against the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. Chaturvedi claims in his complaint, that during the trust vote relating to nuclear deal with USA, UPA government faced the prospect of facing debacle in parliament, as the communist parties decided to vote against the government. Bhardwaj and others helped the government to win the trust vote by entering into an understanding with the Samajwadi Party president, Mulayam Singh Yadav, to drop the CBI case in exchange for the Samajwadi Pary MPs voting in favour of the government, the complainant has alleged.
The Delhi police, who have received the complaint, are holding consultations with the higher ups about the desirability of registering the first information report on the basis of this complaint, it is said.