The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the high profile 2019 honeytrap case of Madhya Pradesh has issued notice to state unit Congress president Kamal Nath, days after he claimed to have a pen drive connected to the case.
Nath has been asked to be present at home on June 2 to register his statement, and also hand over the pen drive. Reacting to a First Information Report (FIR) against a Congress MLA in a woman’s suicide case, the former chief minister had hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, claiming he had information on the case stored on a pen drive but he wouldn’t indulge in dirty politics.
The notice was sent by Indore’s Kishanganj police station inspector Shashikant Chaurasiya under section 160 (police officer power to require attendance of witness)of CrPC.
The notice read, “The case was registered in September 2019 at Kishanganj police station in Indore. The pen drive/CD could be important evidence in the investigation of the case. The pen drive can help the SIT in revealing some new facts. So we expect you to remain present at your bungalow in Shyamla Hills in Bhopal at 12.30pm on June 2 to register the statement and hand over the pen drive to SIT.”
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However, the police officer refused to comment on this notice.
Nath’ s statement has brought the high profile case back into the limelight. The case pertains to a gang of five women and a man who allegedly blackmailed bureaucrats and politicians using their tapes in compromising positions shot without their knowledge. The names of the politicians and bureaucrats involved have not been made public.
Nath made the remark over FIR against former forest minister and Congress MLA Umang Singhar in a case of suicide of a 40-year-old woman.
The BJP hit back at him for misusing his power and for violating the oath taken by a chief minister of keeping important investigations and inquiry secret. BJP state president VD Sharma has demanded an inquiry in the matter even as Nath, speaking in Morena, said that may journalists also have the pen drive, the contents of which are being circulated in the state. He said as the chief minister of the state then, he was privy to details about the case.