MPPEB scam: Governor cites immunity, moves High Court against FIR

Chief Justice A M Khanvilkar is likely to hear Yadav’s plea Monday, Ashish Trivedi, one of his counsel, told The Sunday Express.

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Yadav camped in Madhya Pradesh Bhavan in Delhi from February 26 to March 3 after he was flown there in a state plane to attend the marriage of Lalu Prasad’s daughter with grandnephew of Mulayam Singh Yadav. He tried in vain to get an audience with the President. Apparently he also used the time to seek legal counsel.

The FIR against the Governor had followed after one of the accused, who is in jail for nearly a-year-and-a-half, named him. The Special Task Force (STF) is looking for his son Shailesh and has already arrested his former Officer on Special Duty Dhanraj Yadav.

The petition has cited documents and an affidavit submitted by senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, who had alleged that an Excel sheet submitted with a chargesheet was different from the original Excel sheet retrieved from the hard disk of computer used by Nitin Mohindra (a former MPPEB official).

Digvijaya Singh had alleged that the word “CM” in the original Excel sheet had been replaced with “Governor”, “middleman” and “Umabharatiji” at different places.