{"id":29396,"date":"2013-07-31T17:50:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T12:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=29396"},"modified":"2013-07-31T17:50:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T12:20:03","slug":"evidence-exists-to-nail-pinarayi-vijayan-in-snc-lavalin-case-cbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/evidence-exists-to-nail-pinarayi-vijayan-in-snc-lavalin-case-cbi","title":{"rendered":"Evidence exists to nail Pinarayi Vijayan in SNC Lavalin case: CBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/evidence-exists-to-nail-pinarayi-vijayan-in-snc-lavalin-case-cbi\/attachment\/11\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29398\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29398\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/evidence-exists-to-nail-pinarayi-vijayan-in-snc-lavalin-case-cbi\/attachment\/11\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/11.jpg?fit=176%2C222&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"176,222\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"11\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/11.jpg?fit=118%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/11.jpg?fit=176%2C222&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29398\" alt=\"11\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/11-118x150.jpg?resize=118%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/11.jpg?resize=118%2C150&amp;ssl=1 118w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/11.jpg?w=176&amp;ssl=1 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 118px) 100vw, 118px\" \/><\/a>A CBI probe team Wednesday submitted an affidavit in a CBI court here claiming that it had sufficient evidence to link Pinarayi Vijayan, secretary of the Kerala unit of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, to the SNC Lavalin case relating to the renovation of three power plants.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2009, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed charge-sheets against nine accused in the Rs.374-crore scam related to the Canada-based SNC Lavalin company.<\/p>\n<p>Vijayan, as then state power minister, had inked the final agreement in 1997 for the renovation of three power plants with SNC Lavalin. He was arraigned as the seventh accused.<\/p>\n<p>The CBI filed the affidavit after after Vijayan approached the CBI court with a discharge petition claiming he had done no wrong.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement to the CBI court, the premier investigating agency said Vijayan made a trip to Canada to finalise the agreement but was not accompanied by any expert.<\/p>\n<p>The CBI also pointed out that Vijayan went ahead with the agreement despite being asked not to do so by the then power secretary.<\/p>\n<p>The CBI, however, gave a clean chit to Kerala assembly speaker G. Karthikeyan, who was the power minister before Vijayan.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, last month, the Kerala High Court directed that the trial in the SNC Lavalin case could go on, after splitting the charge-sheet in the case.<\/p>\n<p>It was following this verdict that the case was opened up, enabling Vijayan to file the discharge petition.<\/p>\n<p>Vijayan is currently on bail. The case generated huge public interest, as it was the first time that a CPI-M politburo member was appearing before a court to secure bail in a corruption case.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CBI probe team Wednesday submitted an affidavit in a CBI court here claiming that it had sufficient evidence to link Pinarayi Vijayan, secretary of the Kerala unit of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, to the SNC Lavalin case relating to the renovation of three power plants. 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