Daijiworld Media Network

New Delhi, Nov 22: Although a Delhi court today acquitted Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh and Sudheendra Kulkarni on the 2008 Cash for Votes scam, it still ordered for a framing of charges against the two for assistance in the same. Former Samjawadi party leader Amar Singh and LK Advani's former aid Sudheendra Kulkarni were among the six BJP party members accused of the crime.

Judge Narottam Kaushal discharged Members of Parliament Ashok Argal, Faggan Singh Kulaste, Mahabir Singh Bhagora and Sohail Hindustani of the charges of criminal conspiracy against them. Amar Singh and Sudheendra Kulkarni had been accused of masterminding and executing the crime of bribing some MP's with cash before a confidence vote on a Nuclear Deal in 2008, to be held in the Lok Sabha.

The accusation was cited in a charge sheet filled by the Delhi police in 2011. The court however found that the accustions did not have a solid footing beyond the suspicion on the part of the police and failed to find any direct evidence to convict the accused. It felt that while their behaviour was mistrustful, it wasn't impeaching in itself.

The BJP party members told the court that they were not the criminals but the whistle-blowers in this particular case. The Court concurred that the BJP workers had attempted to bring to light the horse trading that went on rather than abetting or participating in the crime.