Attorney General KK Venugopal, who appeared for the CM and said that the order should be suspended as it was approved without hearing from Rawat and that there was no sentence for a CBI investigation that was presented to the Court in the petition being considered. .
India
Updated: October 29, 2020 4:21 PM IST
On Thursday, the Supreme Court suspended a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigation against Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, two days after the high court ordered the agency to investigate an alleged bribery case that involved Rawat before he became CM.
Attorney General KK Venugopal, who appeared for the CM and said that the order should be suspended as it was approved without hearing from Rawat and that there was no sentence for a CBI investigation that was presented to the Court in the petition being considered. . He said the order had destabilized the government as the opposition raised demands for the CM’s resignation.
The three-judge court headed by Judge Ashok Bhushan said: “Can such an order be approved in a petition in which no specific sentence is made for the investigation and no party is made to the state or CM. Suddenly, everyone is surprised. “
The high court suspended the operative part of the October 27 high court order that directed the IWC investigation and asked opposing parties to file a response within four weeks.
The HC had ordered the CBI to examine allegations made by a journalist Umesh Sharma who accused Rawat of indirectly receiving an alleged bribe of Rs 25 lakh in 2016 when Rawat was in charge of Jharkhand by the BJP. The alleged bribery was a Ranchi man who deposited this money into accounts of Rawat’s relatives with the promise of being appointed chairman of the Gau Seva Committee in Jharkhand.
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