Court adjourns hearing on CBI's withdrawal of Bofors case

COURT-LD QUATTROCCHI

New Delhi, Nov 6 (PTI) A Delhi Court on Friday deferred
pronouncement of its order by five months on a plea of a
lawyer objecting to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)'s
move to withdraw the two-decade-old Bofors pay-off case
against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja, who was
to deliver the order Friday, adjourned the matter till March
31, 2010, saying the court did not have the original documents
as those have been sent to the Supreme Court.
"The file containing original chargesheet and original
documents have been sent to the Supreme Court in February,
2006, and the same have not been received back till date. I am
afraid no order can be passed on the applications in the
absence of original records," CMM Baweja said.
The court had on October 24 also deferred its order on
the issue till Friday.
The lawyer, Ajay Agarwal, had challenged CBI's move to
withdraw the case on October three, saying it was trying to
close the "politically sensitive" case despite having
"sufficient evidence" against him.
CBI had sought burial of the case against Quattrocchi,
69, on the ground that "continuance of his prosecution will be
unjustified".
The agency had said it arrived at the conclusion after
its failure to extradite the businessman, who never appeared
before any court in the country, from Malaysia in 2003 and
from Argentina in 2007 to face trial. PTI ATP
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