Former Maharashtra Minister Anil Deshmukh's aide tried to track location of officers: CBI charge sheet
The Hindu
A close associate of former Maharashtra Minister Anil Deshmukh allegedly attempted to track the location of CBI officers investigating a bribery case against the Minister, the agency has alleged in its charge sheet in a case linked to the leak of its confidential report giving him a purported clean chit.
A close associate of former Maharashtra Minister Anil Deshmukh allegedly attempted to track the location of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers investigating a bribery case against the Minister, the agency has alleged in its charge sheet in a case linked to the leak of its confidential report giving him a purported clean chit.
The draft report of the agency giving a purported clean chit to Anil Deshmukh, who was facing large-scale bribery allegations, was leaked to the media on August 29, 2021. Following this, the CBI arrested Anil Deshmukh's lawyer Anand Daga and the agency's Sub-Inspector Abhishek Tiwari. The two were charge-sheeted later that year.
In its supplementary charge sheet filed in August this year, the CBI has alleged that Anand Daga had shared mobile numbers of the CBI investigating officer and supervisory officers probing the bribery case against Anil Deshmukh with his distant relative Vikrant Deshmukh on June 7, 2021.
According to the CBI, Vikrant Deshmukh managed the former Minister's "financial accounts under the guise of an education trust". The CBI alleged that Vikrant Deshmukh was part of the conspiracy to leak the documents.
“On June 8, 2021, Anand Daga tasked Vikrant Deshmukh with getting the locations of the CBI officers and the latter agreed to do it,” the agency said.
“It has alleged that Vikrant Deshmukh was part of the conspiracy with Anand Daga to subvert the ongoing CBI investigation by “illegally procuring the confidential document” as well as “trying to track the movements” of the investigating and supervisory officers,” the supplementary charge sheet said.
Counsels of Vikrant Deshmukh told the special court that he had no connection with the alleged offence cited in the charge sheet and he had been falsely implicated in the case.
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