CBI owes an explanation on its biased probe!

 The CBI, which has appropriately been called the Congress Bureau of investigation by non-congress parties for its partisan attitude in dealing with the cases involving the Congress adversaries, owes an explanation to the nation, especially to the people of AP, on the criteria for choosing its objects of investigation. 

The YSR Congress Party has time and again asserted that the premier investigation agency is biased in its probe against the party president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy as CBI has adopted a dual policy. 

The YSRCP’s charges against CBI have been buttressed by the modus operandi the agency has adopted in the 26 GOs’ case involving more than half a dozen ministers. 

The counsel for the former excise minister Mopidevi Venkataramana, who has been in jail for more than three months, has rightly complained to the Nampally CBI court on Monday the agency has been adopting a dual policy in dealing with the accused in the Vanpic case. 

The officials of the agency now need to give an explanation as to why it didn’t object to the anticipatory bail application of Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao who is named along with Mopidevi Venkataramana in the Vanpic charge sheet. 

It also has a responsibility to explain how Dharmana can’t tamper with evidence while being a minister and how Mopidevi, a jailed former minister can tamper with evidence in the case.

 The CBI has to give concrete and convincingly reasonable evidence as to why it didn’t proceed as yet against ministers Kanna Lakshminarayana, Sabitha Indra Reddy, Geeta Reddy and Ponnala Lakshmaiah who were responsible for the issuance of 26 GOs. 

YSR Congress has many a time charged that the CBI’s investigation was faulty from the very beginning and it has been targeting only Jagan. The party’s stand has also been vindicated when the CBI had to clarify recently in the court that Jagan had no relation with the Vanpic case and Vanpic case is not part of the Jagan’s properties case.

(Updated on Oct,02,2012)