CBI to tell SC today if law minister erred or not

April 26, 2013 09:17

CBI Director Ranjit Sinha will on Friday file a personal affidavit in Supreme Court stating whether or not Law Minister Ashwani Kumar reviewed the agency's report on the "Coal-gate".

The affidavit will state whether the minister suggested a "list of alterations" which were then cleared by the Prime Minister's Office.

Sources, however, say that the law minister sent the suggested changes to the PMO but did not receive a reply.

The Opposition on Tuesday demanded the Prime Minister's resignation in Parliament over the issue. "There is reason to believe PMO officials were involved in the proposed changes to the coal report," said BJP leader Arun Jaitley. "Let all emails exchanged between PMO officials and the Law Ministry on the coal report be made public at once," he added.

In the report the CBI gave to the court last month, it said that the government had failed to check the financial and other records of companies that landed cheap coal licenses. The agency is expected to invoke this indictment to prove that its report was not compromised.

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