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`No evidence to indict US for cheating in Bofors case`: Hindujas
New Delhi, Oct 25: The Hinduja brothers today contended before a Delhi court that there is no evidence to indict them under the charge of conspiracy and cheating in the Bofors pay-off case.
New Delhi, Oct 25: The Hinduja brothers today
contended before a Delhi court that there is no evidence to
indict them under the charge of conspiracy and cheating in the
Bofors pay-off case.
"The chargesheet is silent about the role of Hindujas
whether they have acted as a middlemen in the contract. There
is no evidence to bring them under the scope of cheating and
conspiracy," Hindujas counsel Ashok Arora told special judge
Prem Kumar during the arguments on framing of charges in the
Rs 64 crore Bofors pay-off case.
Arora submitted that the Hindujas had no role in the
contract and to implicate them under cheating and conspiracy
was wrong.
He said even the attorney general (AG) in his report had
said that it was difficult for any party to prove the negative
aspect or that there were middlemen in the deal.
He claimed that AG's opinion was that it would be
difficult to prove that the Hindujas were acting as the
middlemen in the contract.
The counsel said to prove the charge of cheating against
the Hindujas prosecution did not have evidence to show that
there was fraudulent and dishonest inducement on the part of
the accused.
The Europe-based Hinduja brothers - Srichand, Gopichand
and Prakashchand - are accused of taking an illegal Commission
of about Rs 16 crore from Bofors for having helped the company
clinch the controversial gun deal.
Bureau Report