Antony seems at Delhi court docket in Tatra truck corruption case
3 min readBy Express News Service
NEW DELHI: Former Defence Minister AK Antony on Wednesday appeared earlier than Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court and was cross-examined in reference to the CBI’s case in regards to the Tatra vans corruption case.
As per the sources, deposing earlier than the court docket throughout cross-examination Antony mentioned that he was shocked why General V Okay Singh didn’t complain in regards to the incident of him being provided a bribe in contrast to in different instances like Adarsh Scam the place he used to jot down to the Defence Minister about such incidents.
Antony, through the cross-examination, additionally mentioned that V Okay Singh didn’t present him any diary entry or audio recording pertaining to the mentioned supply of a bribe. As per the allegations within the CBI cost sheet it was within the month of August-September 2010, the file pertaining to the procurement of 1,676 Tatra autos was pending earlier than V Okay Singh, who’s now a Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways and Civil Aviation.
The then Chief of Army Staff (COAS) had doubts in regards to the complete projected requirement of the autos which appeared to him that the requirement had been inflated, as per the CBI, VK Singh sought recent opinion on the difficulty from completely different quarters.
As per the CBI Tejinder Singh met VK Singh in his workplace in South Block on 22 September 2010, and through the assembly, he provided a bribe of `14 crore to VK Singh for clearing the file of Tatra autos by first week of October. Infuriated VK Singh had requested Tejinder Singh to right away go away his workplace and he, thereafter, had intimated Antony about the entire incident of bribe being provided to him, the CBI had mentioned.
NEW DELHI: Former Defence Minister AK Antony on Wednesday appeared earlier than Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court and was cross-examined in reference to the CBI’s case in regards to the Tatra vans corruption case.
As per the sources, deposing earlier than the court docket throughout cross-examination Antony mentioned that he was shocked why General V Okay Singh didn’t complain in regards to the incident of him being provided a bribe in contrast to in different instances like Adarsh Scam the place he used to jot down to the Defence Minister about such incidents.
Antony, through the cross-examination, additionally mentioned that V Okay Singh didn’t present him any diary entry or audio recording pertaining to the mentioned supply of a bribe. As per the allegations within the CBI cost sheet it was within the month of August-September 2010, the file pertaining to the procurement of 1,676 Tatra autos was pending earlier than V Okay Singh, who’s now a Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways and Civil Aviation.
The then Chief of Army Staff (COAS) had doubts in regards to the complete projected requirement of the autos which appeared to him that the requirement had been inflated, as per the CBI, VK Singh sought recent opinion on the difficulty from completely different quarters.
As per the CBI Tejinder Singh met VK Singh in his workplace in South Block on 22 September 2010, and through the assembly, he provided a bribe of `14 crore to VK Singh for clearing the file of Tatra autos by first week of October. Infuriated VK Singh had requested Tejinder Singh to right away go away his workplace and he, thereafter, had intimated Antony about the entire incident of bribe being provided to him, the CBI had mentioned.
