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New Delhi, July 7
The BJP had a hard time cutting short all queries about the financial affairs of its office secretary Shyam Jaju, against whom some anonymous complaint has been made, alleging that he was secretly doing transactions worth crores of rupees through several PAN cards he had got made.
The complaint itself is fallout of a case Jaju registered with the Parliament Street police station on January 28 against a person named Chandan Kumar Jha, alleging that with photocopies of fake PAN cards of Shyam Jaju, he had tried to obtain details about the amount deposited in his account in the Andhra Bhawan Branch of the Andhra Bank.
The issue had created quite a stir in the BJP then, with Jha being brought over to the BJP office, roughed up by strongmen and then handed over to the police. However, he is currently on bail.
This case is now in the Patiala House Court of New Delhi Metropolitan Magistrate Ajay Pandey. Legally, a person is obliged to keep only one PAN card and obtaining more than one is a legal offence.
Meanwhile, people in the BJP started getting curious about Shyam Jaju’s finances soon after a sum of Rs 2 crore was reported missing from a safe locker in the office room of the BJP president on December 26, 2008. The party had instituted an enquiry, but did not disclose its outcome, except saying, “The amount was much smaller”.
However, Jha too was reported to be an insider. He was reportedly living next to the BJP office at 11-A, Ashoka Road, currently allotted to former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Bhagat Singh Koshiyari. He was then working for a TV channel Sadhna TV.
The latest complaint against Jaju mentioned three PAN cards being maintained by Jaju as well as some bank accounts being operated by him both in Delhi and Maharashtra.
The BJP tried to cut all queries on this issue today. Party spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said here today, “The party has conducted an enquiry and found all allegations totally baseless”.
Jaju later denied the allegations in the said letter and produced a printout of the PAN verification. He added that no cards other than the one he claimed to be his existed. He also denied any enquiry by the BJP into the allegations.
The BJP had a hard time cutting short all queries about the financial affairs of its office secretary Shyam Jaju, against whom some anonymous complaint has been made, alleging that he was secretly doing transactions worth crores of rupees through several PAN cards he had got made.
The complaint itself is fallout of a case Jaju registered with the Parliament Street police station on January 28 against a person named Chandan Kumar Jha, alleging that with photocopies of fake PAN cards of Shyam Jaju, he had tried to obtain details about the amount deposited in his account in the Andhra Bhawan Branch of the Andhra Bank.
The issue had created quite a stir in the BJP then, with Jha being brought over to the BJP office, roughed up by strongmen and then handed over to the police. However, he is currently on bail.
This case is now in the Patiala House Court of New Delhi Metropolitan Magistrate Ajay Pandey. Legally, a person is obliged to keep only one PAN card and obtaining more than one is a legal offence.
Meanwhile, people in the BJP started getting curious about Shyam Jaju’s finances soon after a sum of Rs 2 crore was reported missing from a safe locker in the office room of the BJP president on December 26, 2008. The party had instituted an enquiry, but did not disclose its outcome, except saying, “The amount was much smaller”.
However, Jha too was reported to be an insider. He was reportedly living next to the BJP office at 11-A, Ashoka Road, currently allotted to former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Bhagat Singh Koshiyari. He was then working for a TV channel Sadhna TV.
The latest complaint against Jaju mentioned three PAN cards being maintained by Jaju as well as some bank accounts being operated by him both in Delhi and Maharashtra.
The BJP tried to cut all queries on this issue today. Party spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said here today, “The party has conducted an enquiry and found all allegations totally baseless”.
Jaju later denied the allegations in the said letter and produced a printout of the PAN verification. He added that no cards other than the one he claimed to be his existed. He also denied any enquiry by the BJP into the allegations.
