NEW DELHI, March 28: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to file a report containing details of the investigations it has conducted so far into the Rs 420 crore HDW submarine import case before the Delhi High court soon, CBI sources said here today.This report, which would be in a sealed cover, would contain details of the case diary and its enclosures, they said.
The agency had submitted a seven-page status report on the probe to the High Court on Thursday, when the case came up for hearing as part of the proceedings in a public interest litigation filed by senior lawyer B L Wadehra. CBI counsel R S Jamuar, who appeared before a division bench on March 26, had said that another report containing details of the investigations was ready in a sealed cover with him which could be submitted for the court's perusal and not made public. The CBI had registered the case in March 1990 accusing a prominent non-resident businessman, top bureaucrats and defence personnel of having received seven percent kickback in the deal in 1987 when Rajiv Gandhi was the prime minister.
The FIR named industrialist Gopi Chand Hinduja, former defence secretary S K Bhatnagar, former additional secretary S S Sidhu, former additional financial advisor B S Ramaswamy among others.
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