The Delhi police on Friday filed a supplementary chargesheet in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam and told a court here that there was no “abnormal withdrawal” from the bank accounts of Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh ahead of the trust motion faced by the Congress-led UPA-I government.
“There is no abnormal withdrawal from the accounts of accused Amar Singh. Detailed efforts have been made to link the money trail but there is system in the banks to record the number of currency notes at the time of payment to the customers,” the police said in the chargesheet filed before special judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal.
The chargesheet, which gave details of the bank accounts held by Mr Singh and his wife Pankaja Kumar Singh, has not added any other person as accused in the fresh chargesheet.
The police gave details of four bank accounts of Mr Singh in the chargesheet from June 1 to July 31, 2008 to ascertain whether the money displayed in the Lok Sabha during the trust vote on July 22, 2008 had come from his account or not.
During the period, the maximum amount withdrawn from Mr Singh’s four bank accounts in Royal Bank of Scotland, Yes Bank, State Bank of India and United Bank of India, was only `5.17 lakhs, the police said in its chargesheet.
The chargesheet also gave a clean chit to Shyam Jaju, the then in-charge of the national head office of the BJP.