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This is an archive article published on December 16, 2008

Buta Singh146;s son named in scam too

Former Union minister Buta Singh8217;s son, Lovely Singh8217;s name has surfaced in the cash-for-vote scam.

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Former Union minister Buta Singh8217;s son, Lovely Singh8217;s name has surfaced in the cash-for-vote scam.

In a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on 12 August 2008, appended with the Parliamentary Committee report, Suhail Hindustani, one of the masterminds of the sting operation, said he had met Lovely Singh during a meeting with a Haryana cadre IAS officer S P Gupta who had promised to arrange a meeting with Ahmed Patel.

8220;They Lovely Singh asked me about the list of 8216;plots8217; MPs I had and questioned me about my contacts in the BJP. Soon thereafter, Shri Lovely Singh put a call through to Shri Ahmed Patelji from his mobile and gave it to me to speak to him.8221;

Suhail, in the meantime, kept the BJP8217;s Sudheendra Kulkarni updated. According to him, Lovely Singh had fixed his meeting with Patel at the latter8217;s residence in the evening but since the CNN-IBN team had not arrived, he sought the meeting to be rescheduled. It was scheduled at Le Meridien late in the night. Upon reaching the hotel, Lovely Singh informed him that Patel had already left.

 

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