After a clean chit to SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, the CBI on Tuesday wound up its probe in the disproportionate assets case against BSP supremo Mayawati. Both SP and BSP are outside supporters of the Congress-led UPA and the moves come ahead of the Parliamentary polls due next year.
The CBI decided against continuing with the probe after the agency received legal opinion on the Supreme Court order quashing the FIR on the issue, agency sources said.
The apex court had quashed the agency’s FIR in connection with alleged disproportionate assets of the BSP leader in July last year but the matter was in a limbo after an intervention application was filed by a private person Kamlesh Verma in Mayawati’s case seeking quashing of the FIR.
The Supreme Court had on August 8, this year dismissed Verma’s intervention application, paving the way for the closure of the DA case against Mayawati, the sources said.
The CBI had sought legal opinion on the Supreme Court’s August 8 order. legal experts opined that the agency should close the probe in the case. The experts felt that if anyone wants a probe, he can approach an appropriate court to get a suitable order with which CBI would comply, the sources said.
While reserving its verdict on Verma’s plea on May 1, the bench had said that the FIR in the DA case was quashed because CBI proceeded against her without properly understanding its orders which were confined to the Taj Corridor case relating to release of `17 crore by UP Government without due sanction. The court had also said the DA case against Mayawati was “unwarranted.”
However, it had said that the judgment had not taken away CBI’s power to proceed against her in a separate DA case.
The Supreme Court had on July 6, 2012 quashed the nine-year old disproportionate assets case against the BSP leader and had pulled up CBI for exceeding its jurisdiction by lodging an FIR against her without its express direction to the effect.