Ex-IAF chief Tyagi blames former PM Manmohan Singh’s office
Mangalore Today News Network
New Delhi, Dec 10 ,2016 : A court here on Saturday sent former Indian Air Force (IAF) chief S.P. Tyagi and others to custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) till December 14 in the Rs 3,767-crore Agusta Westland helicopter deal case.
Metropolitan Magistrate Sujit Saurabh allowed the CBI to quiz Tyagi, his cousin Sanjeev Tyagi alias Julie Tyagi and a Delhi-based lawyer, Gautam Khaitan till December 14.
Tyagi accused former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s office for allowing changes to be made to the specifications of the helicopters.
Tyagi and the others were sent to CBI for a four-day judicial custody. The 71-year-old former Air Force head had been questioned for over four hours by the CBI on Friday.
The first chief of any wing of the armed forces to be arrested in the country, the former IAF chief and the others were allegedly involved in irregularities in the procurement of 12 AW-101 VVIP helicopters from Britain-based AgustaWestland.
Courtesy: Yahoo News
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