DA case: Court to hear Virbhadra Singh's plea on Nov 9

A plea filed by Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh in which he has accused CBI of not furnishing the complete copy of FIR registered against him and others in a disproportionate assets case, would come up for hearing before a Delhi court on Monday.
The matter, which was scheduled to be heard today, was deferred as Special CBI Judge Vinod Kumar was away attending a training programme.
In an application filed before the court, 81-year-old Singh has said that CBI agency should be directed to file the complete copy of the First Information Report in the court.
CBI had registered a Preliminary Enquiry (PE), which was converted into a regular case this September, against Singh and his family members for allegedly amassing wealth of Rs 6.1 crore, alleging it was disproportionate to their known sources of income during 2009-11 when he was serving as Union Minister of Steel in the UPA government.

CBI had lodged the FIR under the Prevention of Corruption Act, naming Singh, his wife Pratibha Singh, LIC agent Anand Chauhan and Chunni Lal Chauhan.
The agency has claimed that during this period, Singh, a six-time Chief Minister, had invested Rs 6.1 crore in life insurance policies in his and his family members' names through Chauhan.
In an unprecedented action on a serving Chief Minister, CBI had on September 26 searched his official residence and 10 other places in connection with the case, the day of the marriage of his daughter.
Searches were also carried out at his official residence in Delhi, his two houses in Shimla and Rampur and a farm house in Mehrauli in South Delhi which is in the name of his son Vikramaditya Singh.