VIJAY DEO JHA
Ranchi, Dec 12: The Supreme Court on Monday briefly heard the SLP of Kolkata-based businessman and the ‘cash for PIL’ accused, Amit Agrawal and deferred the hearing till December 14.
“I will keep it when you want. We can keep it this week because this person has been repeatedly coming. I don’t know. Uh this is the third part of the thing I am hearing of,” a division bench of Justice Sanjeev Khanna and Justice M. M. Sundresh observed.
THough, the counsels appearing for Amit Agrawal sought a pass-over, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta insisted the court should hear the SLP.
Amit Agrawal has challenged the Enforcement Directorate (ED) prosecuting him as an accused in this case despite him being a complainant, saying that the Jharkhand High court advocate extorted money to give him relief in the shell company related PIL.
During the hearing, counsels for Amit Agrawal sought some other time. The court agreed and said that it can keep the matter for hearing this week also.
During the hearing it was said that there were a lot of allegations against Amit Agrawal and complications are coming up in this part. The court was informed that the Jharkhand High Court has already ordered a CBI inquiry into this matter. Additional advocate general of Jharkhand Arunabh Choudhary and standing counsel of Jharkhand Pragya Baghel were also present during the hearing.
In another development, the Supreme Court deferred hearing of the bail petition of IAS Pooja Singhal to January 2.
