GE Vahanvati advised CBI in 2007 to close a case against Yadav and his family for his alleged disproportionate assets case.
Government’s top law officer GE Vahanvati is once again in trouble for advising the premier investigating agency CBI in 2007 to close a case against former UP chief minister and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his family for his alleged disproportionate assets case in the Supreme Court.
Vahanvati is also in question for giving advice to the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) in the 2G spectrum scam in 2008.
Aggrieved by the reported wrongdoings of the CBI followed by the advice of Attorney General Vahanvati, Supreme Court lawyer Vishwanath Chaturvedi filed a criminal complaint against him saying the AG has “hatched a conspiracy” with others by abusing his official position so that the documents and writings can be forged for the purpose of illegal prevention of punishment to Yadav and his family.
Chaturvedi filed a complaint with the Tilak Marg Police Station on Monday demanding that an FIR be registered against the AG and others under section 218 (public servant framing incorrect record or writing with intent to save punishment) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
Confirming the complaint, a police official told DNA that they are still probing the matter and will take a decision only after consultation with the ACP.
The complaint also names former law minister HR Bhardwaj and Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan alleging all worked in collusion with each other to benefit the Yadavs.
Chaturvedi after filing the complaint told DNA that AG misused his official position and was involved in favouring the UPA government in 2008.
In his 2007 opinion, AG said, “An investigating agency that probes the wealth of a public servant should never probe the wealth of the kith and kin of such public servant unless the agency is also instructed to the possibility that the concerned public servant might have held benami property in the name of his kith and kin.”
The CBI is said to have pegged the value of the “disproportionate assets” of the Yadav family at around Rs2 crore. Vahanvati is said to have questioned the assessment of the agency that Mulayam owned several benami properties.
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