Court urged to reject closure report to be filed in Bofors scam
October 1st, 2009 - 8:57 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) A lawyer, who has been pursuing a case involving Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the Supreme Court, Thursday moved an application in a city court seeking rejection of any closure report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Bofors case.
Advocate Ajay Agarwal, in his application before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja, said that any closure report by CBI should be rejected.
Agarwal had moved the apex court in January 2006 against the defreezing of Quattrocchi’s bank account in London.
His latest application came after the central government Tuesday informed the apex court that it has decided to close the case against Quattrocchi.
“Despite the evidence against Quattrocchi, CBI declared its intention to withdraw the case against him, which is unfair,” Agarwal said in his application in the chief metropolitan magistrate’s court. The case is scheduled to come for hearing before the city court on Oct 3.
Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium had told the apex court that the government has decided to drop the case against Quattrocchi, the sole accused left in the Bofors case as the Delhi High Court on May 31, 2005 quashed charges against all other accused.
He had said that the case against the 69-year-old Italian businessman could not be kept pending forever as two attempts by the government to extradite him have failed.
Quattrocchi is accused of receiving Rs.7 billion in illegal kickbacks in the Bofors gun purchase scandal of the mid-1980s.
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