New Delhi, January 06: The CBI today found itself on a sticky wicket with a Delhi Court questioning its decision to drop the case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the over two-decade old Bofors pay-off scam, saying there were “certain malafide intentions”.
The court made the observations after a Supreme Court advocate opposed CBI’s plea for withdrawal of the case alleging that attempts were made to protect Quattrocchi.
“I agree that there are certain malafide intentions in the case and there is no doubt in that,” Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav said when Supreme Court lawyer Ajay Agrawal submitted that the probe agency and the Central Government had tried to protect the 70-year-old Italian businessman.
–Agencies