Reacting to the personal attack, CBI Director Ranjit Sinha told PTI that “we can reply to all the accusations point by point but since the case is being monitored by the Supreme Court, I will not say anything.”
He termed the book as a “typical babu book where the author has indulged in self-glorification”.
In his book, the former IAS officer from Andhra Pradesh, questioned the decision of CBI to registered a case against him and Kumarmanglam Birla for alleged conspiracy in handling over the Talabira-II coal block to Hindalco and not registering a case against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was incharge of the coal ministry.
“If Mr Sinha was convinced that the Hindalco allocation was a conspiracy and had he the courage of conviction, he ought to have named the Prime Minister in the conspiracy,” Parakh said.
Though, Parakh, 68, writes that it was his decision to bring in Hindalco for Talabira coal project and that there was no pressure exerted on him by the PMO in this case, he, however, raised nine questions in his book, published by Manas Publications, asking why were not the files of PMO scrutinized before naming him in the FIR.
