Former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel has requested the Chief Justice of India to order a high-level judicial probe into the functioning of Central & state probe agencies in the state.
Attempt was being made to falsely implicate him in the alleged scams these agencies were investigating, he claimed in a letter to CJI Dhananjaya Chandrachud, dated September 21.
If the misuse of investigating agencies for `political vendetta’ is not stopped, every person in the state will be forced to live in fear, he said.
Conspiracies were afoot to link his name to scams, particularly those related to `coal levy’ & Mahadev online betting app, the Congress leader claimed.
The Enforcement Directorate has been probing these two alleged scams that came to light during the previous Baghel-led Congress government. After the BJP was elected to power in the last year’s assembly elections, the state Anti Corruption Bureau/ Economic Offence Wing (ACB/EOW) also registered separate cases into the two alleged scams.
Baghel is among 18 persons named as accused in the EOW’s FIR.
In his letter, Baghel said during his five years in office, “I completely followed the Constitution & did not hesitate in taking immediate action on any illegal & criminal cases that came to my notice”.
“I am aware about your busy schedule…..but I am compelled to write to you personally because of the unconstitutional situations that are constantly being created in Chhattisgarh. A recent incident in Chhattisgarh has become the immediate reason for this letter,” he said.