Phone tapping case: Questions posed as if to make me co-accused, claims Fadnavis
India Today
Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis said that the questions posed to him in a case involving alleged illegal phone tapping and the leak of confidential documents were designed to make him a co-accused.
Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, whose statement was recorded by Mumbai police in a case of alleged illegal phone tapping and leaking of confidential documents, on Sunday claimed the kind of questions asked to him were as if to make him a co-accused in the matter.
Earlier in the day, Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil told reporters that the police notice was issued to Fadnavis “not as an accused” and that state government does not act in a vindictive manner against anyone.
After a team of the BKC cyber police recorded Fadnavis's statement for about two hours at his south Mumbai residence, the former Maharashtra chief minister told media persons that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government will not succeed in its motives no matter how much it tries to “frame” him in the case.
Fadnavis said he had raised the issue of “mega scam” in transfers of officials on the MVA's watch before the Union home affairs secretary, but categorically denied having leaked any detail concerned in public domain.
He also alleged that pressure is being exerted on him as he has been raising issues such as the alleged connection between state minister Nawab Malik and fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and the MVA's conspiracy to target its opponents.
Fadnavis accused the MVA government of “suppressing” the alleged mega scam of transfers of officials for six months before he brought it to the light.
The leader of opposition in the state Assembly said he had submitted details of the alleged scam to Union home secretary, but did not make the documents concerned public.
