The advocate also accepted the demand made by an NGO that he should be examined by the CBI to find out his “interest” in the case. “I accept the challenge to be examined by the CBI. Let me state publicly that I will only be too happy to be examined. Place me in your custody, conduct lie-detector and narco-analysis tests. I assure it will be all the worse for you, not for me.”

Gupta informed the General House that Jai Parkash, senior munshi of Sanjeev Bansal, was well known to Ravinder Singh, the Delhi-based businessman and alleged kingpin in the case. “This fact stands corroborated by the 222 calls made between the two in the last six and a half months,” said Gupta.

Following his revelations, the Bar Association has passed a resolution, demanding that the scope of the CBI probe should be expanded.

In another resolution, the Bar criticised the “lopsided reporting” being done in the case by an English newspaper published from Chandigarh.

The association requested the editor of the daily to look into the matter. The speakers ridiculed a report published by the daily on October 19, in which the accusations levelled by an NGO against an advocate for having “vested interest” in the case was published without naming of the NGO and the advocate.

“Had this newspaper mentioned the name of the NGO, readers would have come to know about the credibility of this self-styled NGO,” said Advocate Rajiv Godara.

“We also deprecate the so-called NGO which is acting at the behest of the vested interests in the judicial system and interfering in the proceedings of the High Court Bar,” said Rupinder S Khosla, president of the High Court Bar Association.

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