So Who Wants To Push Rajeshwar Singh Out Of The ED?

The summer recess of the Supreme Court has turned quite odd with a vacation바카라 웹사이트bench taking up stale corruption allegations against an officer바카라 웹사이트investigating top corruption cases, directed by another bench of the apex court. Fingers have also been pointed at the Union ministry of finance, under which the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) functions—after fresh allegations under “national security” emerged against the officer, forcing him to seek a year라이브 바카라 leave.

The SC라이브 바카라 vacation bench, kept to deal with its overbearing바카라 웹사이트workload as well as urgent matters, is hearing a petition filed against the바카라 웹사이트investigator to probe allegations of disproportionate assets. On바카라 웹사이트Tuesday,바카라 웹사이트Rajneesh Kapoor, who has filed the petition against ED officer Rajeshwar바카라 웹사이트Singh, did not turn up, when an application had been filed by Bharatiya Janata Party MP Subramanian Swamy seeking to implead him in the case.

On바카라 웹사이트Wednesday, the SC called the allegations serious and told the government that it may probe the charges against Singh and also consider if he should continue to run the probe since the issues were about national security.바카라 웹사이트Screenshot images show that a relative of a man being probed by Singh has claimed that there is an adverse report against Singh by the Dubai office of the Research and Analysis Wing, the Indian intelligence agency.

The ED has backed Singh and, on바카라 웹사이트Wednesday, issued a press release that he had reported a “single call” he had received in 2016 from a phone number in Dubai. The ED statement says that it was a case-related tip which was duly used in the investigation.

바카라바카라 웹사이트has also accessed a scathing letter written by Singh to revenue secretary Hasmukh Adia. It appears there is a bureaucratic power tussle that has also stalled Singh라이브 바카라 promotion to additional director (of ED) by a year. Singh claims Adia has deliberately made things difficult for him. This, he adds, has been a “regular agenda” of corporate fixer Upendra Rai, in custody for various charges.

Kapoor라이브 바카라 petition is a rehash of one made seven years ago,바카라 웹사이트along with the new claims of the RAW Report. The charges were looked into by the Supreme Court, as well as the CBI and the바카라 웹사이트Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). Apart from taking up the court라이브 바카라 valuable time (yet again), it is also going to cause delays in the probe, by바카라 웹사이트trying to meddle in it. So why now and why during the vacation?

Swamy has backed Singh from the beginning and has바카라 웹사이트joined the fray to challenge this rehashed petition.바카라 웹사이트“Today바카라 웹사이트what happened in SC in my Aircel Maxis case shows that MoF [Ministry바카라 웹사이트of Finance] is full throttle campaigning for removing Dr. Rajeshwar with바카라 웹사이트scurrilous bogus wild charges to ensure he cannot chargesheet PC at end of this month because BC has already been chargesheeted. Now I willretaliate.” Swamy tweeted바카라 웹사이트

PC refers to former Union minister P. Chidrambaram, who is likely to be바카라 웹사이트charge-sheeted by both the CBI and ED soon in the Aircel-Maxis FDI approval바카라 웹사이트case.바카라 웹사이트BC is his son Karti Chidambaram—as per Swamy라이브 바카라 lingo for the Chidambaram family.

The ED, on its part, said on바카라 웹사이트Wednesday바카라 웹사이트that Singh had received a call from Dubai in 2016, giving “important information” regarding a case the directorate was probing. The officer had passed it on to the ED, which it used for the investigation, it added in a press release.

There are many cases that the ED officer in question, Singh, is바카라 웹사이트investigating, but there are some key cases that need a closer look. Thisincludes the 2G spectrum case, including the Aircel Maxis case where바카라 웹사이트Chidambaram and Karti are바카라 웹사이트being probed. 바카라 had recently reported바카라 웹사이트 how the probe and Chidambaram라이브 바카라 interrogation had unleashed fresh information of questionable FIPB approvals for FDI, while the Congress leader was바카라 웹사이트minister in the erstwhile UPA government.

The vacation bench took up the petition while there is a 2011 order of the바카라 웹사이트Supreme Court, which was satisfied with Singh라이브 바카라 responses to the same allegations raised earlier. Besides, Singh is in the midst of the Aircel-Maxis investigation, as an extension of the 2G probe, directed to do바카라 웹사이트so by another bench of the Supreme Court itself in바카라 웹사이트March 2018, with a바카라 웹사이트deadline of six months.

In 2014 as well, the Supreme Court had directed Singh to probe the Aircel바카라 웹사이트Maxis case. During the hearings that culminated into that order, Singh would be a subject of frequent discussion during the 2G PIL hearing in the Supreme Court. At one point, he decided to back out and sought leave to complete a law degree.

Singh has also filed a contempt petition in the Supreme Court, challenging바카라 웹사이트the slurs on him while he is conducting the high-profiled probes. Ideally,바카라 웹사이트the ED and its overseeing the finance ministry could have contested these charges as well and publicly thrown itself behind its officer in the wake of a clean chit from both the CBI and the CVC against these same charges.

Last year, Singh had approached the court to finish this issue once and for바카라 웹사이트all by himself asking for a바카라 웹사이트CBI probe into these allegations. The Supreme바카라 웹사이트Court had then said, “We deem fit appropriate that no action be initiated against the applicant herein by anyone of the authorities.”

It is also reliably learnt that due to the intermittent mud-slinging바카라 웹사이트against the investigator, he has contemplated returning to his parent cadre바카라 웹사이트as a police officer. Following the CBI라이브 바카라 interrogation, ED investigators have also questioned Chidambaram and Karti. It is reliably learnt that Singh did not personally interrogate the father-son duo but is supervising the investigation in his바카라 웹사이트capacity as a senior functionary of the ED.

Singh, a top ED officer, first came into public notice when he was바카라 웹사이트assigned to investigate the money trail behind the 2G scam.

Recently, a Delhi court had acquitted several people, including a former바카라 웹사이트minister, accused of corruption in the 2G scam, but it did not dismiss the바카라 웹사이트fact that money had exchanged hands. The CBI and the ED had earlier said that the agencies would file their respective appeals against the verdicts. The ED had probed the allegedly suspicious payment of Rs 200 crore from Swan Telecom to Kalaignar TV and claimed that this was the bribe money paid. If all the accused were indeed not guilty, there has to be some explanation regarding this hefty sum of money.

While the CBI라이브 바카라 chargesheet dealt with corruption, the ED라이브 바카라 charges banked바카라 웹사이트on ‘proceeds of crime’ under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002. While this probe was underway, a number of allegations were made바카라 웹사이트against Singh. Seven years ago, it had taken up much of the time of the Supreme Court.

The CBI and ED had complained of reporters heckling them for information in바카라 웹사이트the midst of their probes. Now, reporters are pesky, but are usually trying바카라 웹사이트to gather information for publication. But, what was curious was that there were non-journalists who were also trying to prod the investigators for information on the status of their probes.

The Supreme Court came down heavily on them and on바카라 웹사이트March 16, 2011, noted in바카라 웹사이트its order:바카라 웹사이트“While adjourning the case, we make it clear that no one including the newspapers shall not interfere with the functioning of the CBI team and the officers of the Enforcement Directorate who are investigating what has been described as 2-G Scam and the Court will take serious cognisance of any endeavour made by any person or group of persons in this regard.”

In the meantime, Singh had begun a probe into a subsidiary of the Subrata바카라 웹사이트Roy-owned Sahara Group and summoned its managing director. A Sahara Group바카라 웹사이트media house, Sahara Samay, sent Singh an email, claimed to have document about him and sent him 25 queries. Singh did respond to these 25 queries but submitted them to the Supreme Court.

A bench of Justice GS Singhvi and AK Ganguly read the responses, said they바카라 웹사이트were satisfied and issued notices to Subrata Roy and the others for바카라 웹사이트contempt of its earlier order. The Supreme Court bench had noted, “We are prima facie satisfied that an attempt has been made to interfere with the investigation being conducted by Shri Rajeshwar Singh in what has been described as 2G Scam and related matters by trying to pressurize him not to proceed with the investigation qua certain individuals."

Both of these Supreme Court orders clarify that a court of law had바카라 웹사이트understood that the investigator was being hounded by the very people that바카라 웹사이트he was probing. The notices were sent to Subrata Roy, the Sahara group journalist Subodh Jain and lastly, but definitely not the least, Upendra Rai, who had been hounding Rai for quite some time. Rai had also filed the same rehashed petition some time back this year and withdrawn it later after the Supreme Court found no merit in these charges, yet again.

Rai라이브 바카라 story has been unfolding of late, after central probe agencies busted바카라 웹사이트him. It was not the ED which picked him up first but the CBI, on various charges. Rai has supposedly parted ways with Sahara Group and since then started operating on his own.

The first FIR against Rai was that he had given a sworn affidavit to the바카라 웹사이트PIB that he was a journalist, on the basis of which he was given a media바카라 웹사이트accreditation card. This card allows journalists to gain easy access in바카라 웹사이트government buildings during the course of reporting. Such a card falling in the wrong hands may be misused but that was not the offence. The affidavit requires a declaration that the journalism is the one and only profession of the applicant. Rai had a high security pass for Delhi airport from the Bureau of Civil Aviation Services and it revealed that he owned an aviation company that operates chartered services.

The investigations started to reveal how Rai had amassed a fortune over바카라 웹사이트time. He owned prime real estate in Delhi and other places, including a posh bungalow in Delhi’ tony GK-1 area. The fleet of cars included a Mercedes, an Audi and a Range Rover. The agencies are currently probing how he was paid crores of rupees in ‘consultancy fees’ from various corporate houses. Rai라이브 바카라 modus is best left for yet another report since there are other players as far as Singh is concerned. But, there is alleged evidence building up connecting Rai to several players in the 2G case.

The petition seeking a probe into Singh has been filed using the same바카라 웹사이트documents that had materialised in the possession of Jain back in 2011, which Sahara and Upendra Rai had used to pressurise Singh. After failing in the Supreme Court, another petition was filed in the Allahabad High Court.바카라 웹사이트 The Supreme Court also took notice of this in바카라 웹사이트November 2012바카라 웹사이트and expressly said so in an order that “The documents annexed with this application show that every possible effort has been made to interfere with the investigation바카라 웹사이트being conducted by Rajeshwar Singh on behalf of the Enforcement바카라 웹사이트Directorate. …attempts are being made to prevent the Applicant [Rajeshwar바카라 웹사이트Singh] from conducting the investigation fearlessly. All this prima facie amounts to violation of the direction given by this Court on 06.05.2011.”

Charges

The charges made against Singh include two properties, one of which is바카라 웹사이트owned by a person who, by coincidence, has the same name as his wife under an allotment by the Lucknow Development Authority.

Another charge appears to have been fabricated by an amateur. Singh has바카라 웹사이트been charged with buying a house adjacent a particular bungalow in Noida.바카라 웹사이트Curiously, Singh made inquires and found that there is no bungalow as mentioned but a group of HIG flats at the mentioned address and the bungalow adjacent to it, which he is said to have bought, does not exist.

The charges also include a property owned by Singh라이브 바카라 grandfather since the바카라 웹사이트1950s and Singh has inherited a quarter share in the undivided property and duly declared by the ED officer.

It is the Supreme Court which had said in바카라 웹사이트January 2017바카라 웹사이트that the cloud of a바카라 웹사이트probe prevents a functionary from discharging his duties. It makes it no easier on investigators who are probing some of the top corruption cases of the country in recent times.