New Delhi: Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker Ashok Argal was yesterday named as an accused in the cash-for-votes case.
Delhi Police filed the second supplementary charge sheet in the cash-for-votes scam, which took place in 2008 during the trust vote in the Lok Sabha.
The charge sheet was filed in the court of Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Shegal, who issued a notice to Argal to appear before the court on October 14.
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar had given her mandatory sanction to book Argal on September 30, which was attached with the chargesheet by Delhi Police.
Going by the trend when all the accused were ordered arrested by the court in the case upon their appearance in the court, Argal could as well be taken into custody and sent to the Tihar Central Jail.
This will make him the fifth sitting Member of Parliament to be jailed — a record of sorts since the infamous emergency when a large number of opposition lawmakers were put behind the bars by the then Indira Gandhi regime.
Already Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam lawmakers A. Raja (Lok Sabha) and Kanimozhi (Rajya Sabha) are lodged in Tihar Jail as the two main accused in the 2G spectrum allocation case along with Suresh Kalmadi of the Congress party (Lok Sabha) in the Commonwealth Games scam and expelled Samajwadi Party lawmaker Amar Singh (Rajya Sabha) in the cash-for-votes scam
Faggan Singh Kulsate and Mahavir Singh Bhagora, two former BJP lawmakers who were defeated in the 2009 general elections, are also in jail in the same cash-for-votes scam.
Recipient of bribe
Argal represents Bhind constituency of Madhya Pradesh in the Lok Sabha. Together with Kulsate and Bhagora, he has been named as recipient of the bribe while Amar Singh is accused of initiating the bribe.
Amar Singh aide Sanjeev Saxena, senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani's aide Sudheendra Kulkarni and BJP activist Suhail Hindustani are also in the prison on different charges in the cash for vote scam.
The three BJP leaders had stunned Parliament by waving wades of notes in the Lok Sabha just before the crucial voting on July 22, 2008, that followed the Left Front's withdrawal of support to the Congress party-led United Progressive Alliance government over the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
Delhi Police registered a formal case in 2009 and swung into action when they were reprimanded by the Supreme Court on non-action in July this year.
Delhi Police filed the second supplementary charge sheet in the cash-for-votes scam, which took place in 2008 during the trust vote in the Lok Sabha.
The charge sheet was filed in the court of Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Shegal, who issued a notice to Argal to appear before the court on October 14.
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar had given her mandatory sanction to book Argal on September 30, which was attached with the chargesheet by Delhi Police.
Going by the trend when all the accused were ordered arrested by the court in the case upon their appearance in the court, Argal could as well be taken into custody and sent to the Tihar Central Jail.
This will make him the fifth sitting Member of Parliament to be jailed — a record of sorts since the infamous emergency when a large number of opposition lawmakers were put behind the bars by the then Indira Gandhi regime.
Already Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam lawmakers A. Raja (Lok Sabha) and Kanimozhi (Rajya Sabha) are lodged in Tihar Jail as the two main accused in the 2G spectrum allocation case along with Suresh Kalmadi of the Congress party (Lok Sabha) in the Commonwealth Games scam and expelled Samajwadi Party lawmaker Amar Singh (Rajya Sabha) in the cash-for-votes scam
Faggan Singh Kulsate and Mahavir Singh Bhagora, two former BJP lawmakers who were defeated in the 2009 general elections, are also in jail in the same cash-for-votes scam.
Recipient of bribe
Argal represents Bhind constituency of Madhya Pradesh in the Lok Sabha. Together with Kulsate and Bhagora, he has been named as recipient of the bribe while Amar Singh is accused of initiating the bribe.
Amar Singh aide Sanjeev Saxena, senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani's aide Sudheendra Kulkarni and BJP activist Suhail Hindustani are also in the prison on different charges in the cash for vote scam.
The three BJP leaders had stunned Parliament by waving wades of notes in the Lok Sabha just before the crucial voting on July 22, 2008, that followed the Left Front's withdrawal of support to the Congress party-led United Progressive Alliance government over the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
Delhi Police registered a formal case in 2009 and swung into action when they were reprimanded by the Supreme Court on non-action in July this year.
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