(अपडेट) : प्रवर्तन निदेशालय के एक और अफसर ने उपेंद्र राय व सुबोध जैन पर 2जी जांच में बाधा डालने का आरोप लगाया : राजकेश्वर सिंह के बाद अब शरद चौधरी ने सुप्रीम कोर्ट में दायर की याचिका : उपेंद्र राय ने आरोपों से इनकार किया : सहारा मीडिया के हेड रहे उपेंद्र राय और सहारा से जुड़े रहे सुबोध जैन की मुश्किलें कम होती नजर नहीं आ रही हैं. प्रवर्तन निदेशालय के एक अन्य अफसर शरद चौधरी ने भी इन दोनों पर ब्लैकमेलिंग का आरोप लगा दिया है. ईडी में असिस्टेंट डायरेक्टर के पद पर कार्यरत शरद चौधरी ने कल सुप्रीम कोर्ट में उपेंद्र राय व सुबोध जैन के खिलाफ अवमानना याचिका दायर की है. उपेंद्र राय ने अपने पर लगे आरोपों को निराधार बताया है. इस घटनाक्रम के संबंध में समाचार एजेंसी पीटीआई ने दो खबरें रिलीज की हैं, जो इस प्रकार हैं…
2G: ED officer moves SC, claims intimidation by journos
Press Trust of India / New Delhi
A senior Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer today moved the Supreme Court accusing two former journalists of intimidating and blackmailing him from conducting a fair probe in the 2G spectrum allocation related case.
Sharad Choudhary, assistant director, ED, heading a joint team of CBI and ED probing the overseas scam angle has charged that Subodh Jain, a former reporter and Upendra Rai the then Editor of Sahara India media, have been filing "frivolous and false allegations" against him with the PMO and various agencies to deter him from discharging his duties.
"In order to blackmail the applicant as well as to prevent him from being a member of the investigation team they are trying to intimidate him by circulating false, malicious and frivolous complaints against him and his family members at all forums such as the Prime Minister's Office, Finance Ministers Office the Central Vigilance Commissioner's office the CBI and IB offices etc," the petition said.
Seeking protection for conducting a fair and free investigation, Choudhary urged the apex court to initiate "suo motu contempt proceedings" against the duo for "their contemptuous action of thwarting the course of investigation and consequentially the course of justice."
According to the official, the motivated allegations are being directed at him at a time when the investigation was at a crucial stage resulting in the delay of his departure for conducting further probe in the matter.
Choudhary submitted that the motivated attacks against him were being engineered despite the apex court direction of March 16, 2011 restraining all including the said news organisation from interfering with the functioning of the probe teams and the contempt proceedings already pending against the same alleged contemnors in the case file by another ED officer Rajeshwar Singh.
Journalist denies intimidating ED officer
New Delhi, (PTI) : Senior journalist Upendra Rai today denied that he intimidated and blackmailed an ED officer who is probing the 2G spectrum allocation case. "In my entire life, I have not written a single complaint against Sharad Choudhary (ED officer). The CBI has also given me a clean chit in an earlier case of contempt filed by another ED officer," he said. Rai was reacting to a contempt petition filed against him by Choudhary, an Assistant Director with ED, in the Supreme Court today accusing him and a former journalist of intimidating and blackmailing him for conducting a fair probe in the 2G spectrum allocation related case.
