: Uttarakhand High Court orders CBI inquiry into corruption charges against CM Trivendra Singh Rawat #IndiaNEWS The Uttarakhand High Court on Tuesday ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to file

Uttarakhand High Court orders CBI inquiry into corruption charges against CM Trivendra Singh Rawat #IndiaNEWS
The Uttarakhand High Court on Tuesday ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to file a first information report against Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and conduct an inquiry over allegations of corruption levelled by a journalist, Live Law reported.The journalist, Umesh Sharma, who owns a local news channel Samachar Plus, had recorded a video related to the alleged role of the chief minister in getting money transferred to the account of his relatives in 2016. Rawat was then the chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Uttarakhand unit.Rawat on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court against the High Court’s order, PTI reported. The media coordinator of the chief minister, Darshan Singh Rawat, had said the state government will file a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court challenging the order, according to The Indian Express. “The government respects the High Court order,??? he said. “Facts will be cleared in the inquiry.???The High Court passed the order on hearing two separate write petitions of journalists Sharma and Shiv Prasad Semwal. Both of them had sought quashing of an FIR lodged in July. The court quashed the FIR against Sharma.Harinder Singh Rawat, a retired professor and a manager of a college in Dehradun, had lodged the complaint against the video uploaded by Sharma on Facebook. The...Read more

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