New Delhi:Failing to get Unitech MD Sanjay Chandra’s voice sample with his consent, the CBI is planning to move court in a few days, highly placed sources told TOI.
“In cases where a person refuses to give his consent for taking voice sample or conducting any test, we have the option of moving court and then the court will direct the person to give his sample,” an official said. Senior prosecutor A K Singh’s voice sample has been taken and the audio tape was
sent to CFSL on Friday.
Sources said CFSL will check the tape’s genuineness and give its report in a few days. “If the laboratory confirms that the tape is not bogus, then we will go ahead with taking voice samples and carry further investigations,” the source said.
Meanwhile, the agency on Friday questioned its 2G investigation team to ascertain whether A K Singh had advised them to suppress any information during court hearings.
Unitech had rejected the allegations saying Chandra never met the prosecutor in the 2G case outside the court or had any phone conversation with him. The company also denied that Chandra’s voice was on any alleged recording and said it appeared a fabricated voice recording sent anonymously to the CBI.
According to sources, the tape had been recorded by someone who was present in a room along with Singh and Chandra when they are alleged to have been discussing the strategy in the case. A day after questioning other members of its prosecution team members, a special CBI team quizzed its own officials to understand whether they were ever instructed to dilute the stand of the agency in the court by the prosecutor, the sources said.
Sources said investigations so far indicated that the CD was an apparent outcome of growing corporate rivalry in the telecom sector and did not rule out some more tapes surfacing soon.
After registering a preliminary enquiry, the CBI director Ranjit Sinha formed a special team to ascertain whether the corruption slur on its prosecutor in the 2G case was an ‘aberration’ or some other individuals have also been allegedly compromised.
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Neeraj Chauhan TNN
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“In cases where a person refuses to give his consent for taking voice sample or conducting any test, we have the option of moving court and then the court will direct the person to give his sample,” an official said. Senior prosecutor A K Singh’s voice sample has been taken and the audio tape was
sent to CFSL on Friday.
Sources said CFSL will check the tape’s genuineness and give its report in a few days. “If the laboratory confirms that the tape is not bogus, then we will go ahead with taking voice samples and carry further investigations,” the source said.
Meanwhile, the agency on Friday questioned its 2G investigation team to ascertain whether A K Singh had advised them to suppress any information during court hearings.
Unitech had rejected the allegations saying Chandra never met the prosecutor in the 2G case outside the court or had any phone conversation with him. The company also denied that Chandra’s voice was on any alleged recording and said it appeared a fabricated voice recording sent anonymously to the CBI.
According to sources, the tape had been recorded by someone who was present in a room along with Singh and Chandra when they are alleged to have been discussing the strategy in the case. A day after questioning other members of its prosecution team members, a special CBI team quizzed its own officials to understand whether they were ever instructed to dilute the stand of the agency in the court by the prosecutor, the sources said.
Sources said investigations so far indicated that the CD was an apparent outcome of growing corporate rivalry in the telecom sector and did not rule out some more tapes surfacing soon.
After registering a preliminary enquiry, the CBI director Ranjit Sinha formed a special team to ascertain whether the corruption slur on its prosecutor in the 2G case was an ‘aberration’ or some other individuals have also been allegedly compromised.
COURTESY:
Neeraj Chauhan TNN
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