SME Times News Bureau | 13 Feb, 2018
The Supreme Court on Tuesday
dismissed a plea seeking probe into alleged irregularities in
Chhatisgrah's AgustaWestland helicopter purchase for VIPs in 2006-07 and
also into the foreign bank accounts purportedly linked to Chief
Minister Raman Singh's son.
A division bench of Justice A.K. Goel
and Justice U.U. Lalit dismissed the plea filed by the NGO Swaraj
Abhiyan, saying it doesn't find any merit in it.
Chhattisgarh had
denied the allegations, calling them "reckless" and a "politically
motivated" filed to malign reputations as elections were due in the
state.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the NGO, had said
that a proposal of the state in December 2006 stated that there should
be open bid to purchase helicopter.
It said that helicopter firms should be invited but no company was called and a tender was issued only for AgustaWestland.
