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Ready to be questioned by CBI, Manmohan Singh says
New Delhi : On Board PM's Special Aircraft: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said he was ready for questioning by CBI in connection with the controversial allocation of part of a coal block to Hindalco, saying he was not above the law.
"I am not above the law of the land. If there is anything that the CBI, or for that matter anyone, wants to ask, I have nothing to hide," Singh said when asked if he was open to being questioned by the investigating agency which has lodged an FIR against industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and former coal secretary P C Parakh for alleged corruption and conspiracy in the allocation of Talabira II coal block to Hindalco.
The PM was talking to journalists while returning from visits to Moscow and Beijing.Although Singh had in a statement issued by the PMO on Saturday taken responsibility for the Talabira II allocation to Hindalco and strongly rejected all charges of wrongdoing, the interaction with media on board his special aircraft on Thursday was the first instance when he spoke out on the issue, expressing his readiness to face the CBI.
The assertion is significant in view of the estimate that CBI, having registered an FIR for alleged corruption and conspiracy on the basis of its preliminary investigation into why the original decision not to allocate Talabira coal block to Hindalco was reversed, will have to talk to all the persons concerned, before it takes a call on what to do with the probe.
The PM had on Saturday defended the Talabira II allocation as "appropriate" and "based on merits of the case" placed before him". Sources in CBI had reacted to this by saying that they may be required to "interview" functionaries in the PMO who constituted the "competent authority" for allocation of coal mines.
"I am not above the law of the land. If there is anything that the CBI, or for that matter anyone, wants to ask, I have nothing to hide," Singh said when asked if he was open to being questioned by the investigating agency which has lodged an FIR against industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and former coal secretary P C Parakh for alleged corruption and conspiracy in the allocation of Talabira II coal block to Hindalco.
The PM was talking to journalists while returning from visits to Moscow and Beijing.Although Singh had in a statement issued by the PMO on Saturday taken responsibility for the Talabira II allocation to Hindalco and strongly rejected all charges of wrongdoing, the interaction with media on board his special aircraft on Thursday was the first instance when he spoke out on the issue, expressing his readiness to face the CBI.
The assertion is significant in view of the estimate that CBI, having registered an FIR for alleged corruption and conspiracy on the basis of its preliminary investigation into why the original decision not to allocate Talabira coal block to Hindalco was reversed, will have to talk to all the persons concerned, before it takes a call on what to do with the probe.
The PM had on Saturday defended the Talabira II allocation as "appropriate" and "based on merits of the case" placed before him". Sources in CBI had reacted to this by saying that they may be required to "interview" functionaries in the PMO who constituted the "competent authority" for allocation of coal mines.
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