Opposing the bail pleas of senior BJP leader L.K. Advani’s former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni and two BJP ex-MPs, the Delhi police on Saturday said every accused arrested in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam claims to be a whistle-blower.
“Every accused in the case terms himself a whistle-blower as if they have saved the country. If they are taking the plea of being whistle-blowers in the scam, they have to establish it by way of evidence. Not even a single aspect shows that they were actually whistle-blowers,” public prosecutor Rajiv Mohan said.
Mr Kulkarni, arrested September 27, questioned the police as to why “persons” from UPA-I, who were the alleged beneficiaries, have not been investigated. Pleading for bail, Mr Kulkarni contended that the police has not interrogated any of the “main” beneficiaries. “Who is the actual beneficiary? The police has no answer. The actual beneficiary was the then (UPA-I) government. None of the persons from the then government has been investigated or interrogated...,” Mr Kulkarni’s lawyer said. “They (UPA-I) would have been the beneficiary had the three votes counted. It made no difference to them,” he said.