The UPA government, virtually at the receiving end in former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah case in the Supreme Court for about two weeks, on Wednesday hit back strongly refuting his charge that the CBI was used by the Centre to frame him with a view to “destabilise” the Narendra Modi government.
A virtual duel was witnessed in the court between the Centre’s law officer Indira Jaisingh and Shah’s counsel Ram Jethmalani on the charges levelled by the latter’s earlier.
It was the turn of Additional Solicitor-General Jaisingh to pay back in the same coin as she alleged that Shah and his counsel had committed the contempt of court by casting aspiration on a Supreme Court judge, who had passed the January 12, 2010 order for CBI probe into the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, in which Shah was made accused by the agency in a supplementary chargesheet.
The “destabilisation” charge was taken very seriously by the Centre as it pressed into service three ASGs in the case after Mr Jethmalani made the allegations and Ms Jaisingh on Wednesday came prepared with a “written submission” refuting the theory of any “conspiracy” against the Gujarat government.
Referring to a particular paragraph in Shah’s petition against the order, Ms Jaisingh said “the said paragraph explicitly and in no uncertain terms alleges a conspiracy not only between the Centre, the CBI and by innuendo this court (SC), whether knowingly or otherwise.”
The said averment is contemptuous.”