CBI charge sheets sacked Assam minister on bribery charge

CBI has filed a charge sheet against sacked Assam Education Minister Ripun Bora, arrested along with two others for allegedly offering a bribe of Rs 17 lakh to an agency official to "negotiate" the outcome of a murder case in which he is a suspect. A CBI spokesman said the charge sheet was filed against Bora, journalist Mukul Pathak and businessman Ramesh Maheswari before the special judge under section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and section 12 of Prevention of Corruption Act. Bora was arrested when he was allegedly trying to bribe a CBI official, probing the murder of student leader and his political rival Daniel Toppo. He was arrested on June three from Sundar Nagar on Mathura Road in south Delhi when he was allegedly offering the bribe to the official. Pathak, a journalist with a Guwahati- based Assamese daily, and Maheswari, both of whom were accompanying Bora, were also arrested by the CBI. Toppo, district president of All Assam Tea Tribe Students' Union, was Borah's rival candidate during the 1996 assembly polls. The CBI was handed over the investigation into the case in 2001 after the Assam Police could not make any breakthrough into the murder that took place on 27th September 2000. Bora, who had a long innings as Assam Pradesh Congress Committee spokesman, is a suspect in the murder case and had been questioned several times by the CBI. He is claimed to have approached the CBI officer through the middleman for negotiating the outcome of the investigation into the murder case.

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