New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has given sanction to Delhi Police to prosecute BJP MP Ashok Argal in the cash-for-votes scam.
Argal was questioned earlier this year by the Delhi Police Crime Branch along with Samajwadi Party MP Rewati Raman Singh. It was Rewati who had allegedly made the offer to Argal to support the UPA during the trust vote in 2008 at a fixed price.
Argal told police that Rewati approached Argal on behalf of Amar Singh. He also said that Amar Singh struck the deal with them and made him talk to Ahmed Patel on the phone. Argal also informed that Singh's secretary Sanjeev Saxena came to give him the bribe money.
But Argal's comments weren't accepted at face value and the police asked Argal for the names of politicians who approached him and about the BJP leaders who were aware of this deal being struck.
BJP MPs Faggan Singh Kulaste, Mahavir Singh Bhagora along with Ashok Argal had brandished wads of notes in the well of the Lok Sabha during the trust vote in July 2008.
The Delhi Police filed the second chargesheet in the cash for votes scam case on Friday.
They also told the court that their probe is not complete and that they do not have evidence linking former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh with the cash.
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