PANJIM, SEPT 8
The District and Sessions Court will hear final arguments on the contempt petition filed against CBI in connection with the IFFI scam.
Three petitioners Kashinath Shetye, Ketan Govekar and Atish Premnath Mandrekar have said that the court in their earlier petition had directed CBI to place the case diaries of the investigation of IFFI scam before it.
Replying to the petition, CBI today told Court that the case diaries were submitted before the court and the petitioners have made their own convenient interpretations of the facts. The CBI has said that the applicants do not have any cogent ground for invoking contempt of Court.
“The petitioners have raised this issue on misconceived, untenable and frivolous grounds, which now appear to impede the investigation carried out by CBI,” the reply reads.
CBI also made it clear that the preliminary inquiry in any case can be converted into regular case as soon as sufficient material becomes available to show that prima facie there has been commission of cognizable offence.
The fresh contempt petition before the court had pointed out that CBI had produced some case diaries pertaining to the period after the case was transferred from Panaji police to them.
The petitioners said that they had sought information under Right to Information (RTI), information act from CBI which is different from that provided to the court.
The petitioner said that CBI had not provided the facts before the court that case was filed with police on March 16, 2006 and thereafter FIR was registered on October 25, 2006, which is six months after the complaint.
The matter was referred to CBI on April 19, 2007 and a fresh FIR was filed in this case.
“These vital facts were suppressed by CBI before the court and were not placed when they were directed to produce records of the investigation,” the contempt petition pleads.
