At today’s hearing, Senior Advocate R Basant, appearing for Chandrasekhar, admitted that his client had paid crores of rupees while in jail but said that he could not reveal the names of the public officials and others, to whom and through whom, the payments were made.
To this, Justice Lalit sternly remarked, “Get the names tomorrow! We’re not going to shirk away. When will you give the names?“
Basant then replied saying he was not hesitating to share the names and would reveal them on affidavit in seven to ten days.
But the Bench refused to budge.
“If you’re running a complete racket using staff, we’d like to know the names of whom you paid as extortion. You’ve ignited the process, very good. Now we’ll try and ensure this doesn’t happen again, we thank you for igniting,” it remarked.
Source: Barandbench
