Delhi court accepts ED’s closure report in CWG money laundering case due to lack of evidence. Congress leader Pawan Khera says BJP misused fake scams for years to target opposition.
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NEW DELHI: Congress leader Pawan Khera on Monday strongly attacked the BJP after a Delhi court officially closed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation into the alleged money laundering related to the 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG) corruption case.
In a post shared on X (formerly Twitter), Pawan Khera criticised the BJP and accused it of spreading false allegations for many years to defame the Congress party on issues like the 2G scam, CWG scam, and the coal scam.
“Today, the ED filed a closure report on the so-called CWG scam. For years, the BJP ecosystem weaponised lies to tarnish the Congress over issues like 2G, CWG, Mr Robert Vadra and coal. The truth stands tall, and their falsehoods lie in ruins,”
-he said.
Pawan Khera further said that these cases were never really about getting justice but were used as political weapons against the Congress party.
“These cases were never about justice; they were about political persecution, headlines over substance, and deflecting attention from their own failures,”
-Mr Khera added.
He also said that the failure of these fake cases is not only a legal victory for the Congress but also a moral and political defeat for the BJP’s style of politics that is based on false stories.
“Truth does not shout from TV studios, it asserts itself quietly, powerfully, and inevitably. Will the Prime Minister apologise to the nation? Will Arvind Kejriwal apologise to the people of Delhi?”
-Pawan Khera said on X.
Earlier on Monday, the Delhi court gave its approval to the Enforcement Directorate’s closure report, officially ending a long investigation that had stretched over many years.
The case had attracted a lot of attention earlier because of serious accusations against Suresh Kalmadi, the former Chairman of the Organising Committee of the Commonwealth Games, and Lalit Bhanot, the then Secretary General, along with several others.
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The allegations were mainly about financial misconduct in awarding and executing two important contracts linked to the Games. It was said that these contracts had caused unfair financial benefits to some companies and big losses to the Organising Committee.
While accepting the ED’s closure report, Special Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal pointed out that the alleged crime under Section 3 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) could not be proved because there were no “proceeds of crime” found.
The judge also stated that there was no scheduled offence under Section 2(1)(y) of the PMLA that had been committed. Based on the evidence available, there was no act of money laundering as described under Section 3 of the PMLA, 2002.
The judge observed that despite a detailed investigation by the ED, the prosecution failed to bring any evidence to prove an offence under Section 3 of the PMLA, which is punishable under Section 4 of the same Act. Therefore, there was no reason to continue the investigation under the present ECIR (Enforcement Case Information Report). As a result, the court accepted the closure report filed by the ED.
It is important to note that even earlier in 2016, a special court had accepted the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) closure report in a related corruption case. That case involved several officials from the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), Delhi Development Authority (DDA), and a private company.
The CBI had concluded that after collecting evidence during their investigation, they did not find enough proof to support the allegations mentioned in the FIR (First Information Report).
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