During the brief hearing, attorney general GE Vahanvati said he would file objections to the delayed rejoinder affidavit filed on behalf of Mayawati.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati today placed documents before the Supreme Court to counter allegations of CBI that there was ample evidence to prosecute her in a case of alleged disproportionate assets.
Though the documents were submitted in a sealed cover before a bench headed by chief justice KG Balakrishnan, the advocates, appearing for the chief minister, later said those documents would "vindicate" her allegation that CBI has been dragging the case for "political vendetta".
"We have placed documents which pertains to CBI probe into the case, clean chit given to her by the Income Tax Tribunal, records from Parliament and statements made by rival politicians against her," additional advocate general of Uttar Pradesh Shail Kumar Dwivedi said after the court proceedings.
During the brief hearing, attorney general GE Vahanvati said he would file objections to the delayed rejoinder affidavit filed on behalf of Mayawati.
The BSP supremo, in her affidavit, has alleged CBI was adopting different yeardsticks against opposition politicians and cited the instance of RJD chief Lalu Prasad against whom it had not preferred an appeal against his acquittal in a disproportionate asset case when he was in the previous government.
"You cannot have different yardsticks for differrent politicians, particulalry those in opposition," she said in the affidavit.
He had claimed Pathak, now a Rajya Sabha MP, was handed over some papers which were part of record of CBI's investigation into the disproportionate asset case, by a person purporting to be a CBI official.
He had further claimed those documents show no case was made out against the chief minister and the MP was promised to be obliged if the government was saved.
CBI, in its fresh affidavit filed in July last, had said "the competent authority has already taken a decision to file the final report under section 173 of the criminal procedure code in the designated trial court."
CBI counsel had said there has not been any change in its stand to what the apex court was informed on January 12, 2009 when it had said there was enough evidence to prosecute Mayawati in the case.
The agency had pointed out that Mayawati's declared assets of Rs one crore in 2003 went up to Rs50 crore in 2007 and said there was "ample evidence" to show she had amassed wealth disproportionate to her known sources of income.
Mayawati has claimed she had received the money through donations from party workers including meagre sums of Rs5 and Rs10, which they contributed on her birthday.
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