The Delhi court has ordered an investigation of Anil Deshmukh, the former Minister of the Interior of Maharashtra State, to investigate the leak of confidential information related to the investigation of the extortion case involving him. The court stated that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) “abandoned the guy pulling the string” and only kept the “hands.”
On December 22, Special Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal confirmed the form of charges against Deshmukh’s lawyer Anil Daga and CBI deputy inspector Abhishek Tiwari for alleged bribery related to leaks. It instructed the CBI to “cautiously” investigate Deshmukh’s role.
The CBI arrested Daga and Tiwari on September 1, accusing them of conspiring with unidentified persons to sabotage the investigation of the Deshmukh racketeering case.
The Bureau of Enforcement arrested Deshmukh in a money laundering case related to alleged blackmail in November. The CBI earlier linked him to the allegations of bribery against the politician by the former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh (Parm Bir Singh). The agency accused Tiwari and Daga of sharing sensitive and confidential documents to replace “improper advantages and illegal gratification” that undermined the investigation of the extortion case. It stated that Daga was allegedly involved in the “manipulation” of the CBI’s preliminary investigation of Deshmukh. On August 29, a report was leaked in the media as part of the CBI’s preliminary investigation into Singh’s corruption allegations against Deshmukh. The report stated that the agency concluded that Deshmukh “had not committed an identifiable crime.” The CBI later stated that it discovered that Deshmukh’s legal team tried to bribe some CBI officials and leaked the report as part of a “larger conspiracy to subvert the investigation.”
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The Delhi court withdrew the agency on the grounds that it did not investigate Deshmukh’s role. “The CBI seems to have driven the cart with the engine/horse, so it only interrogates those who ride the cart, because without the pull of the engine or the horse, the cart or conspiracy is impossible. Despite the large amount of obvious evidence, the CBI It seems to have abandoned the person who pulls the string or the controlling thought or the main thought or the mind, and is only responsible for protecting the hands,” Agarwal said. He pointed out that the two defendants are closely related to Deshmukh. Agarwal said that they may act with him, “controlling the thoughts of a greater conspiracy, and the arrested may be just hands”.
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