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NEW DELHI: The Congress-led UPA government, which had swiftly transferred over two dozen Kargil arms and ammunition purchase scam cases to CBI and scored brownie points over NDA, appears to have lost interest in speeding up the probes.
On Friday, as in the last more than one year, it had nothing new to tell the Supreme Court except parroting the same old line through Attorney General Milon Banerjee — "We will file a comprehensive affidavit in the matter."
A disappointed amicus curiae, senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, lost no time in accusing the Centre of circulating a letter every time seeking adjournment of the hearing on the PIL filed by one K G Dhananjay Chauhan, who had alleged that a scam of Rs 2,400 crore had taken place in the purchase of arms and ammunition, including the coffingate scandal.
"The Centre owes some duty to the Kargil martyrs. It has not even filed a status report of the ongoing probe since the apex court directed it to do so in August 13 last year," Dwivedi said highlighting the apparent loss of interest on the part of the Centre and the CBI to take the investigation to its logical conclusion.
A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices C K Thakker and P Sathasivam could do little but to grant time to the Centre for filing of the elusive 'comprehensive affidavit'.
In August last, the CBI had told the court that an RC (regular case) had been registered in the Rs 151 crore Terminally Guided Munition (TGM) deal. Apart from this, the agency had nothing new to report to the court since February 2007. The SC has been monitoring the case right from 2004 after the UPA government came to power.
The court had wanted to know from the AG about the steps taken by the defence ministry since January 2007 after the CBI recommended initiation of departmental action against officials in 18 cases.
Banerjee had said the ministry of defence needed time to study the voluminous report given by CBI on initiation of departmental action and if few of them required criminal prosecution, the ministry would return the files to CBI to go ahead. Since then no status report had been filed by the Centre or the CBI.
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