Press Trust of India / Ranchi Nov 12, 2009, 17:50 IST
The Income Tax (IT) Department today told the Jharkhand High Court that a final report of the ongoing vigilance probe into a disproportionate assets case against former state chief minister Madhu Koda and some of his ex-cabinet members would be placed on January 20, next year.
Filing an affidavit in this regard, IT advocate Mukhtar Khan told the two-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra, that it was not possible to place the report till the investigation was completed on December 31.
The affidavit was filed after the High Court asked the IT on November 5 to place a progress report of the vigilance probe in the background of the bench hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Durga Oraon pleading for a CBI probe into the former ministers' movable and immovable assets.
The PIL alleged that former ministers Bandhu Tirkey, Chandraprakash Choudhary, Kamlesh Singh, Enos Ekka and Harinarayan Rai had multiplied their wealth during their ministerial terms. Later, Koda and his alleged aides Bindo Kumar Sinha and Sanjay Choudhary were made parties through interlocutory application in the disproportionate assets case.
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