CBI to SC: Maya delayed probe, no details of Rs 9.78 cr yet

CBI has informed SC that BSP supremo had adopted delaying tactics by filing numerous petitions before the investigating agency.

While Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has allegedly not furnished details of her Rs 9.78 crore deposits yet, the CBI has informed the Supreme Court that the BSP supremo had adopted delaying tactics by filing “numerous” petitions before the investigating agency.

Detailing her income in a counter-affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, the CBI alleged that Mayawati has not given the details of the institutions or banks where the deposits have been made.

“She has not given the details of other immovable properties in her name including agricultural land.

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Investigation in this regard is being carried out,” CBI said.

Listing her declaration filed while contesting the Akbarpur Lok Sabha seat in 2004, CBI said Mayawati had herself mentioned about deposits of Rs 9.78 crore in banks, financial institutions and non-banking financial companies regarding which she was yet to provide any details to the CBI.

About the timing of the affidavit, CBI said the probe in the “instant, voluminous case, had been completed in 2006 but for the further investigation, which had to be carried out on the contentious raised by the petitioner in her numerous representation.”

“…in fact, the petitioner (Mayawati) herself did not cooperate with the investigation until April 2005,” CBI said in the affidavit filed in response to Mayawati’s petition to the Apex court seeking quashing of the FIR in the disproportionate assets case against her.

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