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Supreme Court toady termed as inappropriate the meetings of former CBI Director Ranjit Kumar Sinha with the accused in coalgate and 2G cases. A bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur said the matter needs to be investigated and asked the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to assist it.
The court said, there is merit in the allegations that Mr Sinha met persons in the absence of investigating officers of the cases and asked the CVC to file a report on the entire issue on or before July 6.
The apex court also dismissed Mr Sinha’s plea seeking prosecution of lawyer Prashant Bhushan for alleged perjury.
Bhushan had filed the plea on behalf of an NGO seeking aprobe by a Special Investigating Team (SIT) against Sinha for alleged abuse of position for scuttling the probe into a coal block allocation scam case. In the plea, NGO Common Cause had alleged that entries in the visitors’ register of the former CBI Director’s residence had made it clear that he was meeting the high-profile accused and those associated with coal block allocation.