Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Hi-Profile Cases in India

Tihar Jail has of late become the address of some big names in Indian politics, and most recent entry in this list is Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh.

Amar is accused of buying MPs to support he Manmohan Singh government in July 2008. On 06-September-2011, he was sent to judicial custody by Delhi Court in the infamous cash-for-vote scandal of 2008. In the same case two former BJP MPs Mahavir Singh Bhagora and Faggan Singh Kulaste have also been sent to jail custody until 19-September 2011.

Times of India reported...
Special judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal remained unmoved as Singh said he needed round-the-clock medical surveillance because of his kidney transplant and promised to behave well during the trial. She remanded him along with two former BJP MPs -- Mahavir Singh Bhagora and Faggan Singh Kulaste -- to judicial custody till September 19.
The biggest controversy of the moment is that the chargesheet does not say anything on the beneficiaries of  the cash-for-vote scandal?

India Today says...
The Congress that survived the crucial vote - after the Left parties withdrew support over the Indo- US nuclear deal - maintained a discreet distance from the court case, saying it believed in the due process of law.

However, the BJP - whose MPs were at the centre of the case and had claimed they were being enticed with bribes to vote for the UPA - described the case as the "biggest scandal of the century" and demanded to know why action had not been taken against the beneficiaries of the scam.

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