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A CID probe termed its depletion “anti-government” and an “anti-CID” act. The CID and the BJP came retired with statements arsenic Sukhu termed the full fracas a “smear” run by the absorption party.
Finding himself successful an unsavoury enactment aft the Himachal Pradesh CID initiated a probe into ‘samosas’ being served to his unit alternatively of him, CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu Friday said the probe was not astir the savoury snacks, which, helium said “the media has turned it into”, but it was to ascertain the “misbehaviour” of officials.
After CM’s unit consumed 3 boxes of samosas and cake, from a five-star edifice for Sukhu to beryllium served during an lawsuit connected October 21, show-cause notices were slapped against 5 constabulary personnel, including a pistillate inspector. A CID probe termed its depletion “anti-government” and an “anti-CID” act. The CID and the BJP came retired with statements arsenic Sukhu termed the full fracas a “smear” run by the absorption party.
“The BJP’s behaviour successful raking up this contented is childish and laughable,” helium said to reporters successful Delhi and accused the BJP of moving a run to tarnish him ever since it mislaid the Assembly polls.
He said, “The probe (by the CID) was astir misbehaviour of officials but the media has turned it into a probe into samosas. The DGP has already fixed a clarification successful this regard,” Sukhu said.
CID DG Ranjhan Ojha said it was an interior matter. “The Chief Minister was the main impermanent astatine the motorboat of a information centre for the cybercrime wing. After the event, the officials were having beverage successful the bureau erstwhile idiosyncratic asked wherever were the eatables brought for the relation and we said, ‘pata karo kya hua’ (find retired what happened),” said Ojha. He further said that “neither person we issued immoderate announcement nor person we called for immoderate explanation” and added that the substance should not beryllium politicised. “We simply asked for clarification arsenic to what happened, and a written study was submitted. We person nary volition of taking enactment against anyone. I impulse the media not to nexus this with immoderate circumstantial individual,” the DG said.
CM’s main media advisor Naresh Chauhan excessively claimed that nary specified probe has taken place. Chauhan suggested that it could beryllium an interior substance of CID. “Some radical are conspiring to defame this government. The authorities has neither initiated nor conducted immoderate specified inquiry,” Chauhan said.
The BJP, however, recovered a grip to instrumentality connected Congress dispensation with Leader of Opposition Jai Ram Thakur saying that portion the allegations of corruption successful assorted departments were not being probed, an enquiry was ordered into the missing samosas.
“The absorption has not eaten those samosas, those who were served those samosas were a portion of the government, truthful however could the enactment beryllium anti-government?” Thakur said. BJP’s main spokesperson Randhir Sharma excessively issued a connection saying the the incidental “highlights a deficiency of coordination betwixt the officials and employees, arsenic good arsenic negligence connected their part”. Another BJP spokesperson Chetan Bragata said successful a video connection that an “inquiry into samosas” shows the “misplaced priorities” of the government.
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