New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday appointed senior counsel Anand Grover as special public prosecutor to represent the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate before the special CBI court hearing 2G cases on day-to-day basis.
Grover stepped into the shoes of earlier special public prosecutor U U Lalit, who has since been appointed an apex court judge. Grover, like his predecessor, will be in charge of the prosecution in 2G cases.
Grover was appointed a special public prosecutor by the apex court bench of Justice H L Dattu, Justice S A Bobde and Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre, noting that senior counsel K K Venugopal, appearing for CBI, had recommended just one name and the court did not intend to question it.
Venugopal told the court that he had suggested Grover’s name because he had not appeared for any of the parties in the case.
Having cleared the name of Grover for special public prosecutor, the court said it would take up for hearing an application by the NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation, seeking that the CBI director should keep off the 2G case as it accused him of scuttling the investigating agency’s probe into the scam.
IANS
