New Delhi, August 04: Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh today dismissed as a “cheap gimmick” a complaint of criminal misconduct filed against him by the Himachal Pradesh anti- corruption bureau.
“The FIR is a cheap gimmick which shall collapse under its own weight. It is another desperate move to damage the Congress party through false and baseless accusations and unscrupulous vilification,” he said in a statement here.
The complaint registered last night is based on an audio CD released by former minister Vijay Singh Mankotia, who claimed that the disc contains the voice of Singh and his wife talking to a retired IAS officer Mohinder Singh money exchange.
“The so-called CD has been in the air for more than two years. If any such CD in fact exists it is certainly an exercise in fabrication and doctoring,” he said.
–PTI