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| Mulayam Singh Yadav's corruption case: CBI chief to decide whether to close enquiry
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| INDIA
, 22-July-2013
4:32:24 AM |
| As the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) winds up its probe into Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav's alleged illegal wealth, there is speculation about whether the agency is being pressured by the Congress to end its investigation against him.
CBI sources told NDTV that the probe into Mr Yadav's case has concluded and the final call will be taken by the CBI direct Ranjit Sinha by the month-end, ahead of the monsoon session of Parliament.
Speculation about a possible "clean chit" began after a petitioner in the case, Vishwanath Chaurvedi, alleged that the government is intervening to help the Samajwadi chief, whose 21 Lok Sabha MPs are indispensable for the minority government.
Mr Chaturvedi had earlier said he would challenge the Supreme Court order in December which let off Mr Yadav's daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav from the probe.
The inquiry on whether Mr Yadav and his son, Akhilesh, are guilty of corruption was ordered by the Supreme Court in 2007 based on petition by Mr Chaturvedi.
The CBI Director Ranjit Sinha will decide whether to inform the Supreme Court that the agency wishes to close the case because it has not found evidence of venality.
The CBI has, through its six-year investigation, see-sawed between whether its investigation is yielding dividends. Critics say that the Congress has leveraged the case to pressure Mr Yadav into supporting it on crucial legislation - the nuclear deal with the US in 2008, for example.
Now, they say, the Congress wants to force Mr Yadav into voting for the Food Security law, which entitles nearly 70% of India's population to highly subsidized food. Mr Yadav had said he was not in favour of the proposal because it was anti-farmer.
In 2008, the CBI told the Supreme Court it wanted to withdraw its case in view of the "Government's advice", which provoked a rebuke from the Court.
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