The CBI will soon question an aide of Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh in connection with the forgery of a report.
The CBI will soon question an aide of Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh in connection with the forgery of a report which purportedly showed an agency official opining that the party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav had been "framed" in the case of disproportionate assets against him.
CBI sources said on Sunday the aide, who is close to Amar Singh, will be called to the CBI headquarters soon for questioning after the agency got evidence that the documents, circulated in media, had been handed over by him.
The CBI had registered a case against unknown persons after a report appeared in media citing the 17-page "internal note" which claimed that the agency officials including the deputy inspector general Tillottama Varma was of the opinion that Yadav had been framed up in the case.
CBI director Ashwani Kumar has already termed the report as "false, fabricated and forged".
"In some newspapers and news channels such documents have come which we feel is not right. They are false, fabricated and forged.
"We are probing to find out who gave, how did it reach the media and by whom was it forged. This is being probed and the report will be presented in the Supreme Court," the CBI director had said.
During the investigations, the CBI found that the signatures of Varma on the so-called 17-page document had been forged. This has also been certified by the Government Examiner of Questioned Documents and handwriting experts.
The CBI, after finishing the investigations in the case, will inform the Supreme Court about the findings, they said.
News reports had claimed in February this year that the agency, in an internal note, had already prepared the ground for burying the politically sensitive assets case against Mulayam, by admitting in effect that it was a frame-up.
The reports had quoted an alleged 17-page document prepared by Varma claiming that no case of disproportionate assets was made out against the former UP chief minister, a contention which was denied by the CBI immediately.
CBI had been directed by the Supreme Court on March one, 2007 to investigate the alleged disproportionate assets cases against Yadav, his son and his daughter-in-law. The apex court gave this direction on a Public Interest Litigation filed by an advocate Vishwanath Chaturvedi.
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