New Delhi, Nov 29: Delhi-based businessman Rajat Prasad, whom Union Law Minister Arun Jaitley has alleged to have booked a hotel room where the Judeo video was filmed, today said he had not done any such booking and that his name was "unnecessarily" being dragged into the controversy. "This is not judicious on part of political leaders to drag my name into the controversy," Prasad, who claimed that he was out of Delhi.
He said he was a director with Akash TV network, a private cable channel in Raipur which is alleged to have played a role in filming cash-on-camera scam, but had resigned from there on March 24, 2003.
"It has been alleged that I have fabricated my resignation by backdating it. But I have the receipt from the Registrar of Companies in Delhi and Haryana, which are government organisations, and it cannot be backdated," he said.
Prasad said he had no equity in the private television channel and regretted his name was being unnecessarily dragged into the controversy. "This is going to have an adverse impact on my business."
Prasad also said he had never met or spoken to Natwar Rateria, personal secretary to former Union minister Dilip Singh Judeo, who was purportedly shown as having accepted bribe in the video film.
"I have no political connection with anyone," he said, adding the CBI, which is investigating the sting operation, had not contacted him so far. Bureau Report