Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Thursday welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court to transfer his case from Himachal High Court to Delhi High Court and said he has full faith in the Indian judiciary and that justice would prevail in his favour.
Talking to reporters in Hamirpur, Singh said all cases against him and his family were fabricated and concocted by former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitely.
CBI had become a tool in the hands of BJP-led Centre to target its opponents and had lost its credibility, he said. Earlier on Thursday, the Supreme Court transferred from Himachal Pradesh High Court to Delhi High Court a plea filed by Virbhadra Singh in a disproportionate assets case.
Seeking the transfer of the case out of Himachal Pradesh, the CBI had alleged that the judge, who had stopped them from arresting Virbhadra and his wife, had been his lawyer earlier.
A bench led by Justice FMI Kalifulla, however, chose to steer clear of the controversy and said that the matter should be heard by the Delhi High Court "in the interest of justice".
The Chief Minister, who came to Hamirpur to take part in the state level Hamir festival, noted that a recent meeting of the Governor Acharya Devvrat with the senior officials was against the democratic norms and said the Governor was acting like a British Monarch.
He should act as a constitutional head and devote his full time towards that, Singh said, ruing that the Governor had yet not given his assent to the HP Sports Bill that was aimed at controlling sports bodies in hands of a particular group.
He said that at present more than eighty percent of sports bodies had been hijacked by BJP MP and Dhumal's son Anurag Thakur and family and that was why, the Governor was sitting on the Bill.
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