CBI files review petition in SNC Lavalin case

January 31, 2014 14:31

With just days left for the time for appeal to end, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday filed a review petition in the SNC Lavalin case in which CPI-M state secretary Pinnarayi Vijayan was discharged by a CBI court.

On Nov 5 last year, CBI special court judge R. Reghu termed the investigation agency's chargesheet baseless, and accepted Vijayan's discharge petition, also exonerating all the seven who had filed a discharge petition.

The CBI filed the review petition Friday at the Kerala High Court and stated that the CBI court did not go in-depth into the agreement that was signed by Vijayan with the Canadian company, SNC Lavalin, in 1997 for renovating three power plants in the state.

In June 2009, the CBI had filed chargesheets against nine accused in the Rs.374 crore scam. Vijayan was the seventh accused in the chargesheet.

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