New Delhi, March 16:
In the Agusta-Westland chopper deal, CBI chargesheets former national auditor Shashi Kant Sharma and former Air Vice Marshal Jasbir Singh Panesar, say sources.
The investigating agency in 2020 had requested the Defence Ministry for a go-ahead to prosecute former Shashi Kant Sharma, who was Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) and Defence Secretary, and former Air vice chief Jasbir Singh Panesar.
Shashi Kant Sharma was Joint Secretary (Air) in the Defence Ministry between 2003 and 2007 and went on to become Defence Secretary in 2011-13 and auditor (2013-2017).
The agency has also sought sanction to prosecute SA Kunte, Deputy Chief Testing Pilot, Thomas Mathew, Wing Commander IAF and Group Captain N Santosh.
The CBI’s Special Investigation Team took over the case in 2016 and filed the first chargesheet against former Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi and 11 others on September 1, 2017.
With Defence Ministry providing sanction, the CBI has filed a supplementary chargesheet in 3,200 crore VVIP chopper case naming Sharma and four other senior IAF officials as accused in the case.
