Badal gives it back to Amarinder

‘‘If the CBI can lodge a case against Judeo on the basis of a video clip, why shouldn’t the DRI take suo motu cognizance of the case which apparently involves mind-boggling amounts in foreign exchange?’’ Badal asked.

The Akali chief is now in Delhi along with his son Sukhbir, meeting the BJP top brass and convincing them about the gravity of a letter by J.E.C. Grange, CEO of Global Services Technologies Services Ltd., to Leonard Freeke of Esquare Ltd., Channel Island, calling it a ‘‘proof of corruption through hawala’’. According to Badal, the letter says Raninder paid a million dollars into the Swiss account of a Singapore-based company in August.

Speaking to mediapersons, he said: ‘‘The Chief Minister cannot run away. He should volunteer for a CBI probe,’’ he said. Denying his hand in bringing the issue to light, Badal said: ‘‘I have nothing to do with dissidents nor would I support any government they form.’’ Referring to the Congress dissidents’ demand that the CM should accept a CBI probe, Sukhbir said: ‘‘Amarinder is a lonely man; his partymen have revolted against him and there is no government worth its name in Punjab as the dissident ministers are boycotting their offices.’’