New Delhi, May 05: The Jain-Hawala case continued to haunt the CBI as former Chief Justice of India J S Varma today pullled up the investigating agency for its half-baked chargesheets in the case and failure to re-probe the case. Delivering the fifth D P Kohli memorial lecture here, Varma said "you have invited trouble by inviting me to speak on the issue of role of law enforcement agencies under the rule of law." The chargesheet presented by the CBI in this case were primarily based on the diary entries of the agency. "Even the first year student of law knows that diary entries is only a corroborative evidence," Varma, who had delivered the judgement as Supreme Court Judge, said.
Pointing towards former CBI Director Joginder Singh, who was at the helm of affairs at that time, he said "you even failed to probe the disproportionate assest case against the people whose name had surfaced during the probe."
"If a systematic probe had been carried out at that time to probe disproportionate assest cases, the diary entries could have become corroborative evidences," the former chief justice said, adding this could have led to exposing the criminal-politician-bureaucrat nexus.
Varma said that while delivering the judgement, the court had not barred the agency from conducting a fresh probe. "You can take the idea still," he said.
Bureau Report