Through PTI
NEW DELHI: A legal professional who has been pursuing the politically delicate Rs 64 crore Bofors pay-off case has filed a grievance with Delhi Police claiming that he gained existence threats in an nameless letter.
Recommend Ajay Agrawal claimed that the letter, gained on December 31, was once despatched via an strange put up and there was once no cope with of the sender on it “The letter stated that he (Agrawal) and his circle of relatives would face severe penalties if he didn’t withdraw the case he’s pursuing within the Ideally suited Court docket,” the legal professional stated.
Agrawal on December 25 had filed an software within the Ideally suited Court docket in search of an early listening to on a petition difficult the Delhi Top Court docket’s 2005 verdict which quashed all fees, together with in opposition to the Hinduja brothers, within the case.
He stated the apex courtroom had on November 2, 2018, brushed aside the CBI’s plea in opposition to the prime courtroom verdict and had stated the probe company can lift all grounds within the attraction filed via him in opposition to the similar judgement.
Agrawal stated he had filed the petition within the most sensible courtroom in opposition to the prime courtroom verdict in 2005 itself and over 3 a long time have long gone via for the reason that topic got here to gentle.
The prime courtroom in its 2005 judgement had quashed all fees in opposition to the 3 Hinduja brothers — S P Hinduja, G P Hinduja and P P Hinduja — and the Bofors corporate.
Ahead of the 2005 verdict, the prime courtroom had on February 4, 2004, exonerated former top minister Rajiv Gandhi within the case and directed the framing of rate of forgery beneath phase 465 of the Indian Penal Code in opposition to Bofors corporate.
The Rs 1,437-crore deal between India and Swedish palms producer AB Bofors for the availability of 400 gadgets of 155 mm Howitzer weapons for the Indian Military was once entered into on March 24, 1986.
Swedish Radio on April 16, 1987, had claimed that the corporate had paid bribes to most sensible Indian politicians and defence body of workers.
The CBI on January 22, 1990, had registered the FIR for alleged offences of legal conspiracy, dishonest and forgery beneath the Indian Penal Code and different sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act in opposition to Martin Ardbo, the then president of AB Bofors, alleged intermediary Win Chadda and the Hinduja brothers.
It had alleged that sure public servants and personal individuals in India and in another country had entered right into a legal conspiracy between 1982 and 1987 in pursuance of which the offences of bribery, corruption, dishonest and forgery have been dedicated.
The primary rate sheet within the case was once filed on October 22, 1999, in opposition to Chadda, Italian businessman and alleged intermediary Ottavio Quattrocchi, the then defence secretary S K Bhatnagar, Ardbo and the Bofors corporate.
A supplementary rate sheet was once filed in opposition to the Hinduja brothers on October 9, 2000.
A unique CBI courtroom in Delhi on March 4, 2011, had discharged Quattrocchi from the case, pronouncing the rustic may now not manage to pay for to spend hard earned cash on his extradition which had already value Rs 250 crore.