The Supreme Court on Friday has agreed to hear a PIL seeking registration of FIR against Congress president Sonia Gandhi, former PM Manmohan Singh and others whose names were mentioned by an Italian court in its verdict.
The petitioner, advocate M L Sharma has told that the probe agency was not taking action against high profile politicians despite their names featuring in the order passed by an Italian court which will be the third scam that took place under the UPA which the SC will inquire into after the 2G spectrum and the coal mine allocation scam.
The lawyer had filed a similar petition in 2013 seeking an independent probe into the scam but the court then dismissed his plea which was armed with the Italian court's order confirming that bribes were paid in the deal.
Meanwhile Sharma has added that the probe needs to be done by Indian authority to find out who was paid the money in the establishment or how the funds were worked around within the power circles of Delhi and the scope of the Italian probe comes to an end at the point.
