Chandigarh, May 20: The workers of Bharatiya Janata Party had protested outside the Central Bureau of Investigation office of Chandigarh on Monday and seeked the ouster of the CBI Chandigarh region Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Mahesh Aggarwal alleging that he had leaked information about the raids of the team of CBI Delhi on former railways minister Pawan Kumar Bansal’s nephew Vijay Singla in the railway bribery case. Police had to use water cannons to disperse scores of BJP workers who clashed with police during this protest.
BJP workers had made protest against the DIG Mahesh Aggarwal with the allegation that Aggarwal had leaked information of Delhi CBI’s Team. Police had to use water cannons to disperse scores of BJP workers who clashed with police during a protest near the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) office.
BJP leader and former union minister Harmohan Dhawan alleged that crucial evidence of the bribery scam was taken away by the family just before the CBI’s Delhi team raided Singla’s residence and office.
Dhawan alleged that Aggarwal had been posted at the CBI’s Chandigarh office since 2006 in contravention of rules, even after his promotion to a DIG. He alleged that Aggarwal, a relative of Bansal, had leaked the information about the raids to Singla’s family.
Singla was arrested by the CBI earlier May after he allegedly accepted a bribe of Rs.90 lakh from a railways officer, Mahesh Kumar, to get him appointed as a member of the powerful Railway Board. The “leakage” of the information about the raids has been put up in an affidavit to the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) here by CBI officer Inspector Balbir Singh. Singh approached the CAT against his transfer to Bhopal. He also alleged that Aggarwal had also asked him not to name Rajeev Gupta, joint commissioner of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation, in another bribery case.
Bureau Report
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