Green signal to ED for proceeding against Natwar: HC

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Posted online: Friday , March 28, 2008 at 05:47:38
Updated: Friday , March 28, 2008 at 05:47:38

New Delhi, March 28: The Delhi High Court on Friday gave a green signal to the Enforcement Directorate to proceed against former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh and his son Jagat Singh for alleged foreign exchange violations in the Iraqi oil-for-food scam, holding that the procedure followed by the ED was right.

"The procedure followed by the adjudicating authority (ED) did not suffer any infirmity to call for our interference," a Bench comprising Justice T S Thakur and Justice Kailash Gambhir said while dismissing the father-son duo's petitions.

Vacating the stay imposed by it against ED's proceedings against Natwar and his son, the Court directed them to appear before the ED on April 24 to defend themselves in alleged FEMA violation cases.

The HC passed the judgement on petitions filed by them challenging ED's proceeding against them as copies of all the documents related to the scam were not provided to them.

The suspended senior Congress leader and his son approached the court when the ED refused to provide all the 83 documents brought by India's special envoy Virender Dayal from the US on the oil-for-food scam.

The government had only supplied 22 documents to Singh which were relied upon to proceed against them in FEMA violation case.

Justifying the governments decision, the Bench said, "The adjudicating authority was correct in declining its request for supply of documents not relied upon."

The Bench also turned down their plea that they should be given personal hearing before initiating any procedure against them under the FEMA Act and said their demands were ‘unsupported by law’.

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Comments - 2

Mother Italia and Natwar by Anant on 29 Mar 2008

Sonia is Mother Italia, er India

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Why only documents of the scapegoat? Why not documents about Sonia and congress also? by Indian on 28 Mar 2008

But, what about the key swindler Sonia? The US documents talk about two entities as having taken money fraudulently: (1) Congress (2) Natwar. Obviously, Natwar is the small fry. What about the number one big swindler Congress? And, when anyone says 'Congress', it obviously means Sonia, since no one else has any kind of voice in Congress, and all the rest including Manmohan are like servants in the 'family' party. So, how is it correct to only produce documents that incriminate the small fry and scapegoat Natwar, and hide the documents that implicate Congress and Sonia?

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Mother Italia by Anant on 29 Mar 2008

How can you cast aspersion on Mother Italia, sorry India?Till Natwar was supporting Congress, no action. Now, even High Court is in action.Don't you forget the curious case of CBI action against Mulayam and party for Police recruitment scam. Till yesterday, Mulayam was the enemy, so all guns were blazing against him. Now, he is necessary for Rajya Sabha and against BSP, even CBI has been silenced by Congress.And, you thought CBI is free from political influence?

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