The notice was issued by a Jaipur court after the ACB filed a revision petition seeking voice samples of Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.
Jaipur: In connection with charges of horse dealing and a plot to topple the Ashok Gehlot administration in 2020, the Rajasthan Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has slapped a court notice on Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.
After the ACB submitted a revision appeal in order to obtain voice samples of Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, a court in Jaipur issued the notice.
According to sources, the minister has been requested to provide his response by July 14. A lower court denied the anti-graft organization’s request for speech samples from the Union Minister last year. The ACB then submitted a revision petition, to which the court has now requested a response from Mr. Shekhawat.
As soon as Mr. Singh received the notification, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot attacked the Union Minister harshly, stating that he and Congressman Sachin Pilot sought to overthrow his government two years ago.
Mr. Gehlot’s comments follow those made by Mr. Shekhawat at a conference in Chomu, Jaipur, who stated that water would have entered the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project if Sachin Pilot had not wasted the opportunity to change the administration in Rajasthan.
“Now you are taking the name of Sachin Pilot that he missed the opportunity, which shows you were in connivance with him,” Mr Gehlot said.
The Chief Minister said Shekhawat kept on saving himself but eventually received the court notice. “What is the problem in giving voice samples? ” he asked.
Three audio files of the 2020 uprising led by the then-Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot had surfaced online, appearing to show rebel Congress officials speaking with a BJP leader about paying bribes to overthrow the Ashok Gehlot administration.
The Congress had then claimed that the audio clips had voices of Gajendra Singh, rebel Congress MLAs Bhanwar Lal Sharma and Vishvendra Singh.
Congress leader Mahesh Josh then had registered FIRs with the Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Special Operations Group (SOG) on the basis of the audio clips.
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