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Mumbai: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Thursday claimed that a leaked CBI report purportedly giving a clean chit to former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in a corruption case was genuine.
NCP leader and Maharashtra Minority Affairs Minister Nawab Malik told reporters here that the central agency has now claimed that the report was leaked after paying the bribe and has registered a criminal case in this regard.
But the Central Bureau of Investigation is not saying that the report itself was fake, he said.
“To save his face, it is saying that the report was managed,” Malik alleged. “If the report is presented in the court, Anil Deshmukh will get relief. Whatever is happening is politically motivated.”
The CBI on Thursday said it has arrested NCP leader Deshmukh’s lawyer Anand Daga for allegedly trying to foil the preliminary inquiry directed by the Bombay High Court against the former Maharashtra minister.
It has also arrested CBI sub-inspector Abhishek Tiwari for allegedly taking bribe from Daga. The report of the preliminary inquiry into the alleged clean chit given to Deshmukh was leaked on Saturday night. The CBI launched an investigation into the leaks and later claimed that the findings of the investigation had been tampered with.
The Bombay High Court, while hearing a PIL on corruption charges leveled against Deshmukh by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, had directed the agency to initiate a preliminary inquiry.
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