VLS Finance moves HC for CBI probe against hotelier S P Gupta
PTI | 07:01 PM,Jan 24,2012New Delhi, Jan 24 (PTI) VLS Finance, which is enganged in a legal battle with hotelier S P Gupta, has moved the Delhi High Court seeking a CBI probe into the case relating to theft of documents from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA). The private firm, a non-banking-finance-corporation, was the complainant in the case alleging fraud, forgery and deceit by the hotelier who attracted attention after reports that an FIR against him was withdrawn allegedly at the behest of Home Minister P Chidambaram, his former lawyer. VLS Finance filed a petition before the high court saying Gupta had created pressure on the probe agency and "was interfering in the investigation by seeking closure of the investigation in the FIR by misusing government machinery". The firm said the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police had "hurriedly" filed the chargesheet against Gupta "in order to help the accused and avoid transfer of probe of the case to CBI for proper investigation into all aspects including under the Prevention of Corruption Act". It alleged the Delhi Police had conducted the probe in a "shoddy and tardy" manner under the pressure of Gupta. "It is pertinent to note that not a single accused was arrested nor put to custodial interrogation in such a serious case, where government of India's files had been removed by the accused from the MCA and recovered from the residence of the accused, which files were initiated to take action against the accused," it said. The company said Gupta had made complaints to the Central Vigilance Commissioner against officials of the probe agency, the public prosecutor and even the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate who was presiding the lower court conducting trial in the case.
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