Bhaskar Raman Presented In Special Court By CBI
Bhaskar Raman was presented by CBI in a special court and got four-day remand, he is Karti Chidambaram’s aide: Chinese Visa Case.
Former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram’s close and aide S. Bhaskar Raman was produced by the Central Investigation Agency (CBI) in a special court in Delhi on Thursday.
From here he was sent on CBI remand for four days. Earlier, Bhaskar Raman was produced in a local court in Chennai, from where he was sent on one-day transit remand.
Bhaskar Raman was arrested on 18 May in the Chinese Visa Case. This is the first arrest in the case. On Tuesday, the CBI had raided about seven locations of Chidambaram across the country.
After this raid, Chidambaram tweeted that the investigating agency did not get anything during this period.
He had also written that his name was not included as an accused in the papers shown by CBI during this period.
This is the whole matter.
The matter is related to getting a visa by taking money. Karti Chidambaram, son of P Chidambaram is also trapped in this.
According to the FIR registered by the CBI in this case, this case is from 2011. P Chidambaram was the Home Minister at that time.
A Chinese company, Shandong Electric Power Construction Corporation (Sepco), got the contract from Talwandi Sabo Power Limited (TSPL) to build a power plant at Mansa in Punjab.
According to the CBI, there was a dire need for SEPCO to bring in additional Chinese experts to avoid delays in the construction of the power plant and heavy fines for failure to complete the work on time.
But because of the limited number of visas issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs to such companies, SEPCO was unable to bring in experts.
50 lakhs reached Karti Chidambaram.
In such a situation, TSPL Vice President Vikas Makharia contacted S Bhaskar Raman, a close aide of P Chidambaram. Bhaskar Raman assured to get the work done in lieu of Rs 50 lakh.
After that, the visas of 263 experts of the Chinese company were extended. After this, an amount of Rs 50 lakh was sent to Mumbai-based company Bell Tools Limited through fake invoices and from there the amount reached Bhaskar Raman and Karti Chidambaram.
Strong evidence against Karti Chidambaram.
According to the CBI’s FIR, there was continuous email communication between Bhaskar Raman and Vikas Makharia in connection with the issuance of visas to Chinese nationals and the transaction of Rs 50 lakh. Bhaskar Raman kept forwarding all the emails to Karti Chidambaram.
CBI says that it has strong electronic and other evidence against Karti Chidambaram in this case.
Name of these people in FIR.
In the FIR registered on May 14, the CBI has also accused Karti Chidambaram, his close associates Bhaskararaman, Vikas Makharia, TSPL, Bell Tools Ltd. An unknown government official and a private person have been made accused as the sixth accused.
Various sections of IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act have been imposed against them.
