In a sudden twist in a Sex CD scandal in which a Cabinet Minister of Chhattisgarh Government is filmed and showed in a compromising position, a Special CBI court on Monday sent Chhattisgarh State Congress president Bhupesh Baghel to judicial custody till Oct 8 after the CBI charge-sheeted him and the leader refused to seek bail.
The sensational development in CD case has come just ahead of Assembly polls in the State expected by November and the Congress is putting its all thoughts and strategy into action to vote out the BJP which is in power for the past 15 years.
Upset by sudden move of the CBI to present a charge-sheet in the court of special CBI judge Sumit Kapoor against Baghel and others, the Congress termed it a ‘pure political vendetta’ of the BJP and announced to launch a protest on the issue on Tuesday against personally targeting its state president.
Meanwhile, the BJP has said that State Government has recommended a CBI probe into the scandal specifically on demand of the Congress and Baghel is paying the price for attempting to politically finish career of PWD Minister Rajesh Munat by indulging into ‘below the belt’ politics.
The Sex CD case came into public in October last year after Chhattisgarh police arrested a senior journalist and Baghel’s close relative Vinod Verma from his residence at National Capital Region (NCR) Ghaziabad on charges of possessing fake Sex CDs and the CBI had taken over investigation of the controversial Sex CD scam a month later.
The CBI also presented charge-sheet against Verma and a businessman Vijay Bhatia but they were granted bail but Baghel chose not to move any bail application in a bid to give the arrest a big political colour to probably garner public sympathy with crucial election is just round the corner.
The CBI court had dropped charges of extortion against Verma. The CBI had also listed a young businessman Rinku Khanuja as an accused who had committed suicide in Raipur earlier this year after the investigating agency interrogated him.
