Court directs CBI to give documents to Virbhadra
NEW DELHI : A special court on Thursday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to hand over certain documents to Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh and others in connection with ₹10-crore disproportionate assets case. Special judge Virender Kumar Goyal passed the directions after the advocate for Virbhadra said he has not received documents filed along with the chargesheet.
NEW DELHI: A special court on Thursday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to hand over certain documents to Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh and others in connection with a nearly ₹10-crore disproportionate assets case against him.
Special judge Virender Kumar Goyal passed the directions after the advocate for Virbhadra, his wife Pratibha Singh, and others, submitted that they have not received documents filed along with the chargesheet.
The couple, who have not been arrested so far, and other accused persons — Universal Apple Associate owner Chunni Lal Chauhan, stamp paper vendor Joginder Singh Ghalta, managing director of Tarani Infrastructure Vakamulla Chandrasekhar, and co-accused Lawan Kumar Roach, Prem Raj and Ram Prakash Bhatia — were present before the court during the day’s proceedings.
The chargesheet also names as accused LIC agent Anand Chauhan, who was arrested in the case and is currently in judicial custody.
He was produced before the court from jail.
The court had granted them bail on May 29 after they appeared before it in pursuance to the summons issued against them by the court.
The court had on May 8 summoned them after taking cognisance of the charge sheet filed by the CBI.
The CBI chargesheet, running into over 500 pages having the statements of around 225 witnesses and containing 442 documents, has claimed that Virbhadra had amassed assets worth around Rs 10 crore which were disproportionate to his total income during his tenure as a Union minister.