CGHS scam: Mehta denies granting sanction under CBI pressure

“It is incorrect to suggest that I gave the sanction for prosecution under pressure from the CBI or that he was asked to expedite the grant of sanction,” Mehta said during his cross-examination by the counsel for accused RCS inspector Ram Nath and RCS senior auditor P K Thirwani.

He also denied having granted the sanction without going through the records of the case or “without application of independent mind” and brushed aside the suggestion that he had signed the “draft sanction order without perusing the relevant material.”