New Delhi, Oct 3: Delhi Police today filed its second supplementary charge sheet in the 2008 cash-for-vote case in a court here naming BJP MP Ashok Argal as an accused.
Argal's name was included in the fresh charge sheet after Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar granted sanction for his prosecution to the Delhi Police.
In the earlier two charge sheets, prosecution had not named Argal as an accused and had informed the court that it was awaiting the required sanction for his prosecution.
Six persons, including Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh and BJP leader L K Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni, have been arrested in the case.
Argal was among the then three BJP MPs who had waved wads of currency notes in Lok Sabha ahead of trust motion in 2008, claiming that they had been offered bribe to save the UPA-1 government.
The charge sheet against the Argal was filed before Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal.
Delhi Police had on September 30 filed its first supplementary charge sheet in the case saying that there was no abnormal withdrawal from the bank accounts of Rajya Sabha MP and accused Amar Singh ahead of the July 2008 trust motion faced by the Congress led UPA-I government.
The Crime Branch of Delhi Police had also said in the charge sheet that “detailed efforts” made to link the currency notes displayed in the Lok Sabha have failed till now.
Besides Singh, Delhi police had in the first charge sheet filed on August 24 also named Kulkarni and two ex-MPs of BJP Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahabir Singh Bhagora as accused.
Others charge sheeted in the case are BJP activist Sohail Hindustani and Sanjeev Saxena, former aide of Singh. PTI
