Expressing dissatisfaction over lack of proper sanction order for prosecution, a Delhi court decided to consider the supplementary charge sheet on October 14
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley may be examined by the Delhi police as a prosecution witness to ascertain whether BJP was aware that its three MPs were approached to influence voting in the 2008 trust vote, a local court was told today.
"We have examined Arun Jaitley and there is note in the police case diary about it. We have given his statement in the charge sheet. When the trial would begin, we might need to call Arun Jaitley in the witness box, if needed," public prosecutor Rajiv Mohan told Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal.
Opposing the bail pleas of BJP leader LK Advani's former close aide Sudheendra Kulkarni and two former BJP MP Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahabir Singh Bhagora in 2008 cash-for-vote case, Mohan said their alleged failure to inform senior party office bearers immediately after receiving Rs1 crore money, raises doubt about the sting operation.
"If you (accused) were the whistle blowers, why you did not expose at the best available occasion? Why did you not inform your senior party officials after receiving money? Did they inform any senior party member that, yes, we have been offered money?
"There is no such statement by senior party leaders of BJP that Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh (co-accused) offered Rs3 crore each to their three MPs," the prosecutor said.
He said that the BJP MPs Kulaste, Bhagora and Ashok Argal received Rs1 crore at 11 am on July 22, 2008 but they did not inform any law enforcing agency and waited till 4 pm as they were expecting remaining Rs eight crore to be delivered to them.
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