2G scam: Salman Khurshid’s clean chit to Essar is an interference says Prashant Bhushan

NEW DELHI: The Centre for PIL, on whose plea the Supreme Court is monitoring the 2G spectrum case, has told the apex court that law minister Salman Khurshid’s clean chit to Essar amounted to an “interference” in the trial of the case.

“The interference of an influential minister in the government, the law minister, Mr Salman Khurshid, is evident. He is publicly giving clean chit to Essar/Loop,” the petitioner, a non-government organisation headed by advocate Prashant Bhushan, said in its application moved in the court on Thursday.

It said, the Essar-Loop case is similar to the Reliance-Swan’s in which public officials have already been charged under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

The Centre for Public Interest Litigation informed the apex court that the CBI has filed its third chargesheet before the special court Judge OP Saini in Essar-Loop case.