New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will examine the alleged conversation between Former Additional Director-General of Police (Intelligence), Tamil Nadu M.S. Jaffar Sait and former managing director of Kalaignar TV Sharad Kumar Reddy. It had been notified that the conversation has been published in a section of the media a couple of days ago.
Prashant Bhushan, the leader of Aam Aadmi Party and lawyer-activist in New Delhi on Tuesday had revealed the conversation and transcripts to show how documents were tampered with to cover up the trail of money to the channel in the 2G spectrum case.
The sources of CBI had stated that the transcripts would also be looked into.
An official of CBI said, “The CBI is in the process of obtaining the recordings or transcripts of the said conversation after which necessary action as per law will be taken. We will also examine the conversation (purportedly between Jaffar Sait and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader M. Karunanidhi’s secretary Shanmuganathan) that was brought to public domain today.
The official, who said the conversation came to the notice of the agency through media reports, denied rumours that a CBI team had landed in Chennai on Tuesday to investigate the matter.
The official said, “The authenticity of the transcript and the relevance of the conversation to the case have to be ascertained first.”
The suspicion is that the conversation pertained to alleged kickbacks in the allocation of 2G spectrum involving Kalaignar TV in which the family members of Karunanidhi, including his daughter and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi, have shares.
Notify that Jaffar Sait had been belongs to the 1986 batch of the Indian Police Service and had served as Inspector-General of Police and then the Additional Director-General of Police (Intelligence) in the DMK regime.
A case was registered against him in connection with alleged irregularities in the allotment of a Tamil Nadu Housing Board plot after the AIADMK returned to power and he was subsequently placed under suspension.
Bureau Report
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