Samata Party’s Ex-President Jaya Jaitly Indicted By The Court
Samata Party’s ex-president Jaya Jaitly and two others have been indicted by a court here in an almost 20-year-old join case identified with an implied Defence bargain that originated from a hair-raising sting activity by Tehelka news portal.
Samata party’s ex-president Jaya Jaitly and two others have been indicted by a court here in an about 20-year-old unite case identified with an implied defense bargain that originated from an exciting sting activity by Tehelka news entryway.
Maj Gen (R) liable as well
A sting activity almost 20 years back demonstrated Samata Gathering’s previous president accepting hush money from an invented firm
Her ex-party associate Gopal Pacherwal and Maj Gen SP Murgai (retd) too have been indicted
Special CBI judge Virender Bhat held Jaitly, her previous party colleague Gopal Pacherwal and Major General SP Murgai (retd) blameworthy of defilement and criminal intrigue.
‘Activity Westend’ was publicized by news entrance Tehelka in January 2001 in which the charged purportedly took kickbacks from an imaginary organization for gracefully arranges for handheld warm imagers from the Military.
She did it with the “thought process to practice an impact upon local officials in the issue to get gracefully arranges from the Service of Safeguard for gear for the firm”.
The meeting occurred at the official home of the then defense minister George Fernandes. In its July 21 request, the court saw that while Jaitly acknowledged unlawful satisfaction of Rs 2 lakh from Mathew Samuel, a delegate of the imaginary organization (Westend Universal), Murgai got Rs 20,000.
The three blamed, alongside Surender Kumar Surekha, who later turned approver, were involved with the criminal intrigue, the court held. It is asserted that an aggregate of Rs 1 lakh was paid to Surekha for his help with the issue. The CBI recorded the charge-sheet in 2006. The court is booked to hear contentions on the quantum of sentence on July 29.
