Coal scam: Govt, pressurising CBI to save PM

  • 5 years ago
India News: Sushma Swaraj, the senior BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, on Saturday accused the UPA government of pressurising the CBI to save Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the coal blocks allocation scam.

Writing on Twitter, Sushma posted: "This is a very serious matter. This is the evidence of Government's pressure on CBI to save the PrimeMinister (sic)."

The BJP leader was reacting to a report in a leading English daily which today claimed that Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and officials of the Prime Minister's Office had vetted the CBI's controversial probe status report submitted before the Supreme Court last month