New Delhi, Nov 28: The CBI today asserted it was not working under any "pressure" in probing of "Judeo video case that showed former Union Minister Dilip Singh Judeo purportedly taking bribe and claimed the agency was making "headway to bring out the truth." "We are working under no pressure whatsoever. We are discharging our duties and investigating the case as we deal with other cases," CBI director P C Sharma told reporters on the sidelines of the inauguration of a computer command centre at the agency headquarters.

He was replying to questions whether the agency was facing any political pressures in solving the case quickly.

To a question about the role of a local cable channel in Raipur which allegedly circulated the video tapes, Sharma shot back "we know how the investigations have to be conducted. No guilty will be spared."

The CBI director refused to take any questions on Judeo.


However, CBI sources said, Judeo's personal secretary Natwar Rateria, who also appears in the tape, would be questioned by the agency soon.

The agency has established contact with Rateria, who had been missing after the news broke, and he had been asked to appear before the agency for "some clarification", the sources said.
His role has already come under CBI scanner as he had gone in hiding immediately after the videotape was put on air by various television channels.

The videotape had been handed over to the Central Foreinsic Laboratory in Andhra Pradesh for examination.

Bureau Report