New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition which wanted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe Jet Airways chairperson Naresh Goyal's alleged links with the underworld.
Delhi journalist M Furquan petition claimed the government had ignored intelligence agencies’ warning that gangsters Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel had funded Jet Airways.
The Bombay High Court has already rejected Furquan’s petition and the Supreme Court ruled there was no need for an investigation. Senior Supreme Court lawyer Shanti Bhushan, who appeared for Furquan, claimed that Goyal had got money from Dawood.
Bhushan claimed investigating agencies had ignored an Intelligence Bureau (IB) letter to the Union Home Ministry about the alleged links of Goyal with Dawood and Shakeel.
"The letter written in 2001 says that the black and extortion money of Dawoood and Shakeel had been invested in the Jet Airways and it needs a probe," he said. According to him, "the IB had given reports that it had recorded a conversation between Goyal and Ibrahim and Shakeel and it would not give such statements unless and until there is sufficient proof."
"It is the duty of the government to investigate properly. If the Union government had conducted the probe, then give us details of the probe and who did it," Bhushan was quoted by PTI as saying in court.
Senior counsel Harish Salve, appearing for Jet, while opposing the PIL said the Home Ministry and intelligence agencies, including RAW, had given clean chit to Jet chairman regarding his alleged connection with the underworld.
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