‘CBI takes order from Govt, can’t expect fair probe’

Addressing the media following the SC order for a ‘preliminary enquiry’ against his party chief and UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav and family in the disproportionate assets case

Addressing the media following the SC order for a ‘preliminary enquiry’ against his party chief and UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav and family in the disproportionate assets case, SP general secretary Amar Singh said he did not believe there could be a free and fair investigation.

Present on the occasion were actor-turned-politicians Jaya Bachchan and Jayapradha; party’s Socialist stalwarts Jnaneshwar Mishra and Mohan Singh; Mulayam’s son Akhilesh Yadav; and Rajya Sabha MP Shahid Siddiqui.

“The CBI should be called Congress Bureau of Investigation,” said Singh, “after all, the agency has revealed how it takes its orders from the Centre. The agency had gone to London to de-freeze Quattrochhi’s acounts, it has also submitted there can be no investigations against UPA allies — Mayawati and Lalu.”

Singh, however, refused to accept the court had ordered an ‘enquiry’. Instead, he said, it was “just a step to gather information to establish whether the petitioner had a case or not.” Singh claimed that the petitioner was a Congress member. “I also have tapes of a conversation between the petitioner and a journalist where the former has claimed he gets his orders from the PM and Sonia Gandhi.”