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BJP leader Ajay Agrawal asks CBI to re-investigate Bofors case
BJP leader Ajay Agrawal asked the CBI to re-investigate the Bofors case and offered to share documents which he claimed to have collected from Tis Hazari court.
New Delhi: BJP leader Ajay Agrawal asked the CBI to re-investigate the Bofors case and offered to share documents which he claimed to have collected from Tis Hazari court.
Agrawal, who had unsuccessfully contested the 2014 Lok Sabha election from Rae Bareli against Congress president Sonia Gandhi, today submitted a memorandum on the matter to CBI chief Alok Verma.
He told the CBI director that if the agency needed permission from the Centre, then it should immediately seek the nod.
Earlier, BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi also raised the issue of the Bofors scandal, demanding opening of the 'boxes'.
In late July, she said that the 'ghost of Bofors' would continue to haunt the Parliament. There were documents related to discussions between Rajiv Gandhi and the then Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme which proved a quid pro quo, she added.
However, Lok Sabha members from treasury benches demanded to reopen the probe into the alleged irregularities in the Bofors gun case.
What is Bofors scandal?
This was a major occurred between India and Sweden during the 1980s and 1990s, initiated by Indian National Congress (Congress party) politicians, and implicating the Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, and several other members of the Indian and Swedish governments who were accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB.
The scandal relates to illegal kickbacks paid in a US$1.4 billion deal between the Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors with the government of India for the sale of 410 field howitzer guns, and a supply contract almost twice that amount. (With PTI inputs)