Blaming the Congress for misuse of the CBI, the Jammu and Kashmir BJP leaders today said it has been turned into a "toothless and ineffective paper tiger".
The CBI, an institution meant to check crime in the government and for which every Indian was proud of its efficiency and effectiveness, has been turned into toothless organization, the BJP leaders said at a public awareness workshop organised here.
The Pradesh BJP president Shamsher Singh Manhas alleged that after coming to power in May 2004,the Congress-led UPA used CBI to get 15 cases against senior congress leader Satish Sharma pertaining to irregularities in allotment of petrol pumps closed in Delhi court.
Similarly the UPA government in 2007 put pressure on the CBI not to prosoecute former Chatisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi in money scam, he alleged.
"In December 2008, CBI sought permission to withdraw its application filed against Mulayam Singh before Supreme Court. It was CBI's non-filing of appeal in corruption case against Lalu Prasad Yadav which ensured RJD MPs refraining from voting against government in opposition's cut-motion", Manhas said.
BJP Legislators Party leader Chaman Lal Gupta said CBI's clean chit to Jagdish Tytler in 1984 anti-sikh riots case and seeking court permission to withdraw prosecution against Ottavio Quattrochi speaks of how much this investigating agency has been misused time and again and turned into a Congress tool to serve its political ends.
