Delhi police file charges against Amar Singh, BJP MPs in cash-for-vote case
24 Aug 2011
Delhi Police has filed charges against former Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh and six other persons, including MPs Amar Singh and Sudheendra Kulkarni who was earlier an aide of BJP's L K Advani, for their alleged involvement in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam.
Sources said all the seven would be charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act, three years after the incident took place.
The police said they have evidence against the seven for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to bribe MPs ahead of a confidence vote in the Lok Sabha.
Police have projected Kulkarni as the "mastermind" of the scam as he allegedly was in touch with all conspirators and was present when the "illegal gratification" was paid to the MPs.
Others named in the chargesheet include two former BJP MPs, Phagan Singh Kuleste and Mahaveer Singh Bhagoda, Sanjeev Saxena, former aide of Amar Singh and Suhail Hindustani, an alleged BJP activist.
The name of sitting BJP MP Ashok Argal, who was sought to be bribed to disobey the party line, was not mentioned in the charge sheet and Delhi Police said it would file a supplementary charge sheet after taking the requisite sanction to prosecute him.
