Saswat Panigrahi
The UPA Government is on a sticky wicket like never before. The
CBI in an affidavit told the Supreme Court that it had shared the draft of the
status report on its probe into Coalgate scam with Law Minister Ashwani Kumar
as desired by him. The CBI further admitted before the Apex Court that the
contents of the report have also been shared with a Joint Secretary level
officer in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). There is a lot more to the
Coalgate probe than that meets the eye.
The development came amid
the CBI facing serious allegations of toning down its probe report on Coalgate
under the influence of the Government. Though the investigative agency
maintains that no alternation was made in the report, reports suggest that it
was Law Minister Ashwani Kumar who vetted the probe report. This is not to
dispute that vetting the report of a probe agency is a criminal act and the
Government is indulged in such acts.
The CBI is an investigative
agency and is supposed to carry out an independent and unbiased investigation.
But the Congress-led UPA Government, which is responsible for the Coalgate scam
is now trying to use the CBI to conceal the truth. The CBI, however, maintains
that it is not under pressure on Coalgate probe.
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