The Supreme Court, on Monday, directed advocate Prashant Bhushan to reveal the source of information which alleged that CBI chief Ranjit Sinha met 2G scam and coal allocation scandal accused at his residence.The Apex Court said that just because someone has made an allegation or a statement it does not mean that an inquiry should be ordered. The court asked Bhushan to name the whistleblower, in a sealed envelope, who revealed the contents of the controversial guest list of the CBI director.
The next date of hearing has been set for September 22.
The CBI director on Friday had hit back at Bhushan and dared him to reveal the source of his information. Dismissing the allegations as malicious, Sinha filed an affidavit in a sealed cover before the Apex Court delving into the merits of the charges leveled against him by Bhushan.
Sinha said that some ‘of the entries in the log-book (guest list) may be genuine, but most of the entries are forged’.
The CBI has already filed perjury proceedings against Bhushan and his NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation.
The CBI director was directed by the Supreme Court on September 10 to respond to the PIL that accused him of meeting coal scam accused at his residence.
India Today reported that the CBI Director Ranjit Sinha, accused of meeting persons linked to sensitive cases like the 2G and coal scams at his official residence, has relied on past court rulings for a counterattack on lawyer Prashant Bhushan ahead of a crucial Supreme Court hearing in the case on Monday.
A bench headed by Justice H.L. Dattu had last week described as "serious" the allegations levelled by Bhushan based on the alleged entry register of Sinha's residence. After the matter was brought to the court's attention by Bhushan, the judges asked Sinha to file an affidavit explaining "things in black and white".In his affidavit, Sinha has demanded the prosecution of the NGO Common Cause and Bhushan for perjury for allegedly filing false documents in the court. Significantly, Sinha also slammed the Supreme Court registry for accepting the "sworn" affidavit by Bhushan, which he said was "in violation of the established Supreme Court rules" as it did not reveal the source of the "personal information" detailed in it.
Sinha's affidavit, to be argued by former additional solicitor general Vikas Singh, cited a slew of Supreme Court and high court judgments which state such affidavits are to be outrightly rejected even at the registry stage. Other verdicts that call for "strict action" against those committing perjury have also been referred to in Sinha's affidavit.
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