Ajmer blast: CBI files report on Aseemanand statement's leak

 The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday filed a report before a Delhi court on how the confessional statement of Hindutva activist Swami Aseemanand - allegedly involved in the 2008 Ajmer blast - was made public.

The CBI submitted its report before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Bansal and said that it had been established that the statement was not leaked due to any act of its officials.

A journalist, who got this confessional statement published, stated during the enquiry that he had 'obtained the copy of the confessional statement from one of his advocate sources', the CBI said.

'However, he has refused to divulge the particulars of this source during the enquiry,' the CBI added.

The court said that the CBI has filed its report, but it had asked the director of CBI to file it. 'Why is he not here?'

The CBI earlier had filed a two-page report before the court refuting the claim by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activist Devender Gupta accusing the probe agency of leaking the confessional statement to the media.

A petitioner has sought registering a police complaint against a CBI officer and Tehelka magazine owner and editor for making public Aseemanand's confession to a court about his alleged role in the Ajmer blast case.

Gupta, arrested for his role in the 2008 Ajmer Dargah blast, contended that an offence of a serious nature had been committed with the leakage of the confession made by Aseemanand accepting that Hindu activists were to blame for a string of bombings in the country.

The confession was recorded in Delhi by a metropolitan magistrate Dec 18 last year.

Counsel for Gupta, Anupam Sharma and Satish said the CBI admitted that the leak is established.

'Therefore, investigation is now required in this case and FIR (first information report) should also be lodged against them as to how it happened,' said Sharma.

The matter would come up for hearing March 19.

source:news.yahoo.in

CBI to probe if 2G scam compromised national security

The CBI has begun probing if the 2G spectrum scam compromised the country''s internal security and would apprise the Supreme Court of its findings on March 15, the agency told a Delhi court today.

"The issue of national security has also been raised by (Janata Party chief Subramanian) Swamy before the Supreme Court. CBI is presently examining the said matter and will file a progress report before the Supreme Court on March 15," the CBI told Special Judge Pradeep Chaddah, in its report.

CBI made a plea asking the special court to discontinue proceedings before it. the court, however, listed the matter for further hearing on March 17.

The agency contended that it has already registered the case on the 2G spectrum allocation scam and was investigating it while an FIR in connection with the case was before another court of Special Judge O P Saini.

"CBI has filed a report regarding Swamy''s apprehensions of threat to national security. It has been submitted in the report that matter is now pending before the Supreme Court," the court said.

CBI said it has begun probing the threat to country''s internal security as per the concerns raised by Swamy, who had come to the court seeking a probe into the scam.

He had also sought the court''s direction to appoint him as a public prosecutor to help the agency in probing the case and trying the accused.

Swamy, however, could not appear before it today as he was attending the 2G spectrum matter in the Supreme Court. His counsel Tarun Goomber asked the lower court to exempt him from personal appearance today, which the court allowed.

CBI had earlier told the court that it was not aware of the threat to national security posed by allocation of 2G spectrum to some telecom firms which subsequently off-loaded their shares to global firms with links to Pakistan.

"We (CBI) are not aware of the details of national security aspect as raised by Swamy in his application as a copy of the complaint by him is not available with us," CBI had said.

But, CBI filed its report today as the court had specifically asked it earlier if their investigation also covered the national security aspect as raised by Swamy.

source:http://in.news.yahoo.com

CBI to investigate law college recognitions granted by BCI

New Delhi: Several affiliations that had been granted by the Bar Council of India (BCI) to various law colleges in the past five years are being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI).

BCI vice chairman R. Dhanpal Raj had been arrested by the CBI from his residence in Tamil Nadu after a probe into the affiliation that had been granted to Global Law College in Ghaziabad.

According to sources, cash amounting to about Rs.75 lakh had been recovered during the raids conducted against BCI officials that had been arrested in connection with the case. R. Dhanpal Raj has been remanded by the court in police custody till February 25, 2011.

An FIR had been filed against a member of the Bar Council of Delhi, R.S. Rana, who had allegedly entered into a criminal conspiracy by demanding money from Manish Tyagi in order to conduct the inspection of a law college and giving a favorable report for granting recognition to the college. A trap had been laid by the CBI and Rana had been arrested with Rs.1 lakh cash in his hands.

An anticipatory bail petition by R. Dhanpal Raj had been rejected by the Supreme Court.

source:http://indiaedunews.net/Law/CBI_to_investigate_law_college_recognitions_granted_by_BCI_13568/