Court asks police to probe motive behind Bhushan-Mulayam CD

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court today rejected police plea for closing the case relating to the controversial CD with purported telephonic talks among advocate Shanti Bhushan and politicos Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh and asked police to expeditiously probe the motive behind creation of the CD.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav ordered the police to conduct an "expeditious" probe into the motive behind creating the CD, wondering if it was aimed at making a Supreme Court judge quit the bench hearing a plea for CBI probe into the 2G spectrum allocation case.

"The prosecuting agency clearly failed to investigate as to what was the motive of creating such a CD. Was it to malign the complainant (Bhushan) and, in turn, thwart the 'civil society movement' on 'Lokpal Bill' which he had undertaken or was it a ploy to make the Hon'ble Supreme Court judge to recuse himself from the bench which was hearing the 2G case," said the CMM.

The CMM rejected the police report to close the case registered on Shanti Bhushan's complaint that the CD was fabricated in order to defame him.

The court ordered further probe into the matter as the police, in its closure report, had said the CD, having Shanti Bhushan's voice purportedly telling Mulayam Singh Yadav that his son Prashant Bhushan can manage a Supreme Court judge, was a genuine one.

CMM Yadav also came down heavily upon the Special Cell of Delhi Police for not probing the source of the CD.

"It is further not clear why the investigating agency did not conduct any investigation towards knowing the source from which the CD was prepared," the court said.