By IANS,
Shimla : Himachal Pradesh’s Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau Tuesday got permission to prosecute BJP legislator and former minister Rajeev Bindal, a close confidant of previous chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, in an alleged corruption case.
“We received sanction for Bindal’s prosecution,” a vigilance bureau official told IANS.
He said the case pertains to appointments in the Municipal Council of Solan when Bindal was its chairman.
The vigilance bureau registered a case against Bindal Dec 1, 2006 under sections 420, 468, 471 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code and section 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The home department had kept the case pending during the previous Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) regime despite the vigilance bureau seeking sanction to prosecute him.
Holding the health portfolio, Bindal was one of the most controversial ministers in the BJP government.
He was told to resign as cabinet minister in July last year after a segment of his own party demanded his resignation to project a clean image of the government ahead of assembly elections that year.