Ex-CM Rawat takes a dig at ‘friends in CBI’ for serving him summons at hospital

Rawat, who is recuperating in the hospital following a road accident on October 24, shared the information and a copy of the notice on his Facebook account. “Today, a very important organisation came to Jolly Grant Hospital to inquire about my health. Friends in CBI came and served me a notice. I was very surprised. The day people came to the hospital to inquire about my health, the CBI must have felt that I posed a greater threat to the integrity, unity, security and democracy of the country. That is why they served me a notice in the hospital itself. Wow CBI,” Rawat said in the post.

On July 17, special judge of a Dehradun court Dharmendra Adhikari has ordered Rawat, former state minister Harak Singh Rawat, Congress MLA Madan Bisht along with Umesh Sharma, the journalist who carried out the alleged sting operation and now an Independent MLA, to give their voice samples. The sting operation came to the fore in 2016 after nine Congress MLAs rebelled against the Harish Rawat government and joined hands with the BJP. In the video, Rawat was allegedly bargaining with dissident MLAs.