CD Sting Case: CBI Questions Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat | NWI

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday questioned Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat in connection with a probe into the sting operation involving him. The central probe agency will quiz Rawat again on June 7.

Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat couldn’t furnish full details in many issues, CBI sources told the media.

“I don’t have to produce any proof for my innocence, have not done anything wrong,” Rawat said on Tuesday after 5 hours of questioning while denying any wrong doing in the case.

The CBI had last week rejected the state government’s notification withdrawing the nod for probing the case which was given during President’s Rule.

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The Uttarakhand High Court also did not stay the CBI probe as requested by Rawat.

CBI had said the notification was rejected after taking legal opinion, which said there was no ground for its withdrawal and it was “not legally tenable”.

CBI had registered a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) on April 29 to probe the “sting operation” purportedly showing Rawat offering bribes to rebel Congress lawmakers to support him during a floor test in the Uttarakhand Assembly.

The agency had summoned Rawat for examination for May 9 but he had sought more time after which he won the floor test and returned to power.

Rawat has denied the allegation and called the video fake after it was released by the rebel Congress legislators but later admitted that he was on camera in the sting operation.

After Rawat’s victory in the floor test, the state cabinet met on May 15 and withdrew the notification recommending a CBI probe into a sting operation involving him.

Instead, the state cabinet decided to constitute a Special Investigating Team to probe the case as it was a state subject.

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