Jaitly points finger at Congress for Sohrabruddin case cover-up
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday hit out at the Congress, accusing it of “killing” the CBI in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh-Tulsiram Prajapati and Kausar Bi’s alleged encounter killing case.
“This is an irrefutable evidence of what the Congress did to our investigative agencies. Those who have recently shown a belated concern for institutional independence should seriously introspect as to what they did to the CBI when they were in power,” Jaitley said in a Facebook post.
He was referring to the judgement delivered by special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in the politically sensitive Sohrabuddin Sheikh-Tulsiram Prajapati and Kausar Bi’s alleged encounter killings case.
The court acquitted all the 22 accused saying “witnesses and proofs provided were not satisfactory”.
The court also said it was targeted “to act upon a script” and “anyhow implicate political leaders”.
Jaitley slammed Congress President Rahul Gandhi for his veiled dig at the Narendra Modi-led Central government over judicial verdicts in the case, saying “no one killed…they just died”.
“The Congress President on the day of the judgement raised the issue ‘that nobody killed Sohrabudin’. It would have been more appropriate if he had asked the right question, namely who killed Sohrabudin case investigation, he would have got the right answer,” he said.