New Delhi: The Supreme Court's decision asking the CBI to proceed with charges against the BSP Chief in the Taj Corridor case come as a major setback for Mayawati.
By doing so, the apex court has cleared the decks for the prosecution of Mayawati in the Rs 175 crore scam.
At the moment, what is bothering Mayawati is not the judgment but its timing. Just months before she leads her party in UP Assembly polls, this judgment will be used by her rivals as a toll to slur her image.
"Efforts of the Attorney General to get a CBI clean chit have now been exposed," says Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh.
The case was detected in 2003 and relates an illegal corridor that was discovered to be coming up on land near the Taj Mahal in Agra. This happened when Mayawati was the Chief Minisiter of the state.
The CBI investigating the case had earlier given a clean chit to the former UP Chief Minister, but the apex court on Monday set aside the CBI opinion and directed it to proceed againt Mayawati.
"There is no question of any setback. The proceedings are to start with zero and before the learned magistrate who will be looking into the entire material," says BSP MP, Satish Chandra Mishra.
And it was not only Mayawati, but also the CBI that was in the court's line of fire. The court came to a conclusion that the CBI had failed to perform its duty in this case.
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