New Delhi, October 03: CBI today filed an application before a Delhi court seeking closure of the Bofors pay off case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi.
In the plea filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja, the probe agency said all efforts to extradite Quattrocchi for facing the trial here has failed.
The agency opposed the plea of advocate Ajay Agrawal, who had filed an application in his personal capacity pleading rejection of the closure report, on the ground that he has no “locus standi” to intervene in the matter.
Additional Solicitor General (ASG) P P Malhotra said the court has limited role in deciding the application and the CBI’s plea can only be turned down on the ground that it has been filed under extraneous considerations and the investigating agency has not applied its mind.
–PTI