Somebody wants me out of coalgate probe: CBI SP

May 18, 2013 19:22

Arrested CBI SP Vivek Dutt claims that someone wants him out of the Supreme Court-monitored Coalgate probe team.

Dutt and three others were today sent to three days in the agency's custody by a Delhi court for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs seven lakh from a businessman to favour him in a land dispute case.

Dutt's counsel said someone was trying to destroy career of the senior officer.

"The doubt which we have in our mind is that when an officer is involved in a very important case, then someone may try to divert the attention. Someone might want to remove him from the probe," the counsel said.

He told the court that his client is being targetted and nothing has been recovered from his possession by the agency.

"He is investigating an important case under the supervision of the Supreme Court and somebody wants him not to be the part of the probe team... This is simply a device to divert the attention that the investigation in the coal scam is vitiated and the officer is corrupt," the counsel said.

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