By means of PTI
GUWAHATI: Riniki Bhuyan Sarma, the spouse of Assam Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, has filed a Rs 100 crore defamation swimsuit in opposition to Delhi Deputy Leader Minister Manish Sisodia, who had alleged malpractice in giving contracts for PPE at above-market charges.
Bhuyan Sarma filed the swimsuit on the court docket of Civil Pass judgement on Number one of Kamrup Metropolitan district on Tuesday and it’s prone to arise for listening to on Wednesday, her suggest Padmadhar Nayak stated.
Some other suggest Kishor Kumar Dutta advised PTI that Sisodia whilst addressing a press meet on June 4 in New Delhi had made “some allegations that broken the recognition and place” of Riniki Bhuyan Sarma.
“Sisodia unnecessarily dragged the identify of Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma additionally into the debate. Because of this we’ve claimed that harm,” he added.
Sisodia, regarding media reviews had advised newsmen that whilst the Assam govt procured non-public protecting apparatus kits for Rs 600 every from different corporations, Sarma gave pressing provide orders to the corporations of his spouse and son’s industry companions for Rs 990 apiece.
The opposition Congress, CPI, CPI(M), CPI(ML)-Liberation, RCPI, TMC, Raijor Dal, Assam Jatiya Parishad and Anchalik Gana Morcha have demanded a CBI probe into the alleged corruption.
On June 1 virtual media organisations – New Delhi-based ‘The Twine’ and Guwahati-based ‘The Crosscurrent’ had in a joint investigative document claimed that the Assam govt had positioned 4 COVID-19-related emergency scientific provide orders, possibly with out following correct procedure.
Bringing up a chain of Proper to Knowledge replies, the medial portals claimed that the entire 4 orders, positioned between March 18 and March 23 of 2020, have been bagged via 3 corporations owned via Riniki Bhuyan Sarma and the circle of relatives’s industry affiliate Ghanshyam Dhanuka.
In a tweet, she had refuted any wrongdoing within the provide of PPE kits to Nationwide Well being Undertaking and stated she didn’t take a “unmarried penny” for them.
The prevailing Assam govt and Sarma have one by one denied all fees that the executive minister’s circle of relatives was once concerned within the alleged malpractices and termed the allegations via the 2 virtual media as “false, imaginary, malicious and of vested pursuits”.
Sarma was once the well being and circle of relatives welfare minister in 2020 all the way through the primary BJP-led state govt.