Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal asked Delhi Police to submit to the court all the case-related CDs which it has in possession.
A Delhi court hearing the 2008 cash-for-vote scam case on Saturday decided to view all six CDs containing footage of the purported sting operation conducted in the run up to the July 2008 voting in Lok Sabha on the trust motion by Congress-led UPA government, on Monday.
Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal asked Delhi Police to submit to the court all the case-related CDs which it has in possession. The sting operation was conducted by a TV channel.
The court also directed the prosecution to get an expert to play the CDs in the courtroom after the counsel for Sudheendra Kulkarni, a former aide of senior BJP leader L K Advani, alleged that the CDs submitted by Delhi Police were incomplete.
“If you have sent all the six CDs to the FSL (forensic science laboratory), that means you have something in mind otherwise you would throw it in the dustbin... Let us be fair to all. Whatever CDs you have, produce them all before the court,” the judge said.
Public Prosecutor Rajiv Mohan told the court that they received six CDs from the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee, out of which one was empty. He added that all the CDs they had received from the private TV channel, which had conducted the sting operation, had been put on record.
To this, the court said “The first thing is that you (the prosecution) produce certified copies of all six CDs.”
Meanwhile, the court extended Kulkarni’s judicial custody till October 3, deferring the ongoing arguments on his bail plea till then.
Kulkarni mweanwhile told the court that he should be made a witness rather than prosecuting him.”The court should make me a witness in the case, not accused. My only motive was to expose corruption.” He also asked why the beneficiaries of the scam were not being investigated. “This investigation is missing out on those who benefited from this scandal. Who is the main beneficiary? This is a million dollar question for them (prosecution). It was not Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh’s government which had to be saved,” he added.
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