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Delhi High Court seeks Bofors case documents

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, MARCH 11. The Delhi High Court today summoned from the trial court the set of documents on which the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) wants to prosecute the three Hinduja brothers — S.P. Hinduja, G.P. Hinduja and P.P. Hinduja — in the Bofors gun deal case.

Justice R.S. Sodhi summoned the document Nos. 20, 20A, 21 and 22 when counsel for the three brothers, Ram Jethmalani, urged the court to discharge his clients as the investigating agency did have the originals of the relevant documents to make them admissible in the trial court in support of the charges against them.

Mr. Justice Sodhi has been hearing a petition by the three brothers seeking quashing of the cheating charge against them. Mr. Jethmalani had earlier argued that the High Court had last year directed the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) of Delhi to frame the charge against his clients on the assumption that the investigating agency might be having originals of the documents.

The Hinduja brothers had also moved the CMM court last year seeking a direction to the CBI to produce the originals of the documents related to the Bofors gun deal brought from Switzerland.

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