Subramanian Swamy had earlier claimed that 2G Scam case is Sabotaged by internal people. Subramanian Swamy made a sensational charge against former Attorney-General Mukul Rohatgi, saying appointing him to the post was a mistake, in the first place.
Rohatgi on Thursday said the 2G spectrum allocation scam case was never an issue of criminality. Swamy accused Rohatgi of not being faithful to the government that had appointed him and gave him his three-year term as Attorney-General
Swamy said he opposed the appointment of Rohatgi even at the time he was appointed.
Saying that the verdict in the 2G spectrum scam case needed to be appealed in a higher court, Swamy alleged internal sabotage of the case by the prosecution, saying that many officers who handled the case were ones still loyal to P Chidambaram.
Insisting that today’s verdict was not a setback, Swamy said he was convinced that the verdict will be overturned by High Court.
Swamy took the example of the J Jayalalithaa disproportionate assets case, saying she was convicted after an appeal to a higher court. He also said that he will follow a similar path in this case as well.
Swamy alleged that there were certain elements within the Modi government that did not want to take on corruption, and urged the Prime Minister to tackle corruption on a war footing.
Flaying prosecution for deliberately sabotaging its own case, special CBI judge OP Saini on Thursday criticised Supreme Court-appointed special public prosecutor Anand Grover, saying the quality of prosecution in 2G cases had “totally deteriorated” and by the end it became “directionless.”
He said that the CBI had started its case with “great enthusiasm and ardour” but at the final stage of the trial, Grover and the regular CBI prosecutor moved in “two different directions without any coordination.” It also took strong note of behaviour of CBI and its SPP saying several applications and replies were filed on their behalf but in the final phase of the trial, no senior officer or prosecutor was willing to sign these documents.The documents were ultimately signed by a an inspector of the agency, who was one of the junior-most officers posted in the court, the judge said. “On conclusion of final arguments for the prosecution, Grover (SPP) did not file written arguments, but instead submitted that he would file it only when the defence would file its written arguments. That was highly unfair,” Saini said.
“Not only this, the most painful part is that Spl PP was not ready to sign the written submissions filed by him,” the court said, asking, “What is the use of a document in a court of law, which is not signed by anyone? When questioned as to why the Spl. PP was filing unsigned written submissions, his reply would be that some defence advocates had also not signed the written submissions”. “Even the witnesses who were expected to be in the know of everything that had happened in this case, were recorded at a very late stage and with a rapid pace. No plausible explanation has been given for the delay except citing the high profile nature of the case. This puts a cloud about fairness of investigation,” the judge said.
Anand Grover was leading supporterr of Yakub Memon, He said Supreme Court committed a tragic mistake. Yakub Memon did not get time to come to peace with his own god, come to peace with his own soul and even settle the will with his family. He may be dead but I will still move the apex court so that convicts in identical situations do not suffer,’ said Memon’s lawyer Anand Grover.
Anand Grover also said, “These blood-thirsty people will hang Yakub tomorrow.”
