Jaitley indicating IT dept to issue notice to Congress: Sibal

December 12, 2015 14:16

Alleging political vendetta in the National Herald case, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal today accused Finance Minister Arun Jaitley of indicating to Income Tax department issue of notice to his party in the case. He also rejected all charges of alleged cheating and siphoning off money by Congress in the matter.

"Your finance minister in his blogs and on Facebook says this is an offence under Income Tax Act. He is the finance minister of this country. Does he have the right to make statements like that? He is giving a sort of indication to the IT department that you send notice. And what has stopping of Parliament got to do with the case of National Herald. It is nothing to do with it," Sibal said.

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