BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give directions to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to provide sanction for prosecution against five officers chargesheeted by CBI in the Aircel-Maxis case. In his letter to Prime Minister, Swamy blamed the Finance Ministry for holding the prosecution of the five officers, who are co-accused with former Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
“This inexplicable delay by the Finance Ministry could sabotage the case against Chidambaram since the CBI designated Special Court Judge has already threatened to dismiss the case on this failure to submit the Sanctions for Prosecution. On December 18 last, rebuking CBI, the Judge OP Saini has posted the case to January 11 for production of Sanction for Prosecution against the above mentioned five officers, found to be helping Chidambaram in corrupt granting of FIPB clearance in the Aircel-Maxis FDI proposal, according to CBI’s chargesheet filed on July 19,” said Swamy, blaming the Finance Minister.
Swamy said “this delaying attitude” of the Finance Ministry was also hampering filing of chargesheet against Chidambaram and son and same officers “in another open and shut INX Media bribery” case, where the ED had seized 55 crore worth properties of Chidambaram family in many countries. PNS
CBI requested sanction for prosecution against two former Finance Secretaries Ashok Jha and Ashok Chawla, and two serving IAS officers Kumar Sanjay Krishnan and Deepak Kumar Singh, and a retired Under Secretary Ram Saran in the Aircel-Maxis case.