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Uttarakhand sting operation : CBI likely to question CM Harish Rawat today

| | Jun 07, 2016, at 04:35 pm
New Delhi, June 7 (IBNS) : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will question Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat on Tuesday in connection with the alleged sting operation against him, media reports said.

The CBI had earlier questioned Rawat on May 24  in connection with the sting operation where he was shown offering bribe to rebel CongressMLAs to save his government.

The Uttarakhand  Chief Minister had described the operation as  a conspiracy of the BJP-led government at the Centre.. “I believe the entire nation is watching this. And very soon there will be a solution to this conspiracy,” he said. 

 Rawat said the case was handed over the the CBI when Uttarakhand was under President’s rule.

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