New Delhi, April 05: CBI today registered a case and began a probe into the death of Sadiq Batcha, a close aide of former Telecom Minister A Raja who has been arrested in the multi-crore spectrum allocation scam.
The agency has started its investigations under section 174 of the CrPC in the mysterious death of Batcha who was found hanging at his home in Chennai on March 16. The section allows an investigating agency to probe cases where death has been caused by unnatural reasons, official sources said.
The CBI action came after the Supreme Court’s direction to the government yesterday to issue within three days a notification for handing over the investigations to CBI after it was alleged that the Centre was “sitting over” the request for the last fortnight.
-Agencies