Article: AMAR SINGH, AHMED PATEL GET CLEAN CHIT

Saroj Nagi

Hindustan Times

NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 16 -- The seven-member Lok Sabha committee probing the cash-for-vote scam has given a clean chit to Rajya Sabha MPs Ahmed Patel of the Congress and Amar Singh of the Samajwadi Party. This, however, came along with three dissenting notes and criticism by some of the panel's own members who said the "big fish" have been let off.

The panel in its 466-page report, which was tabled in Parliament on Monday, said since there was no case against Patel nor any clinching evidence against Singh, there wasn't any need for the Committee to examine them. It also said there was nothing to prove that SP's Reoati Raman Singh was in BJP MP Ashok Argal's ...

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