The Congress on Saturday washed its hands off the CBI's failure to secure extradition of Ottavio Quattrocchi.

It also attacked the BJP for making a 'political issue' despite the fact that while in power, the main opposition party's record was not better.

"Those who are levelling allegations at us should look within. Why the BJP-led government had failed to secure extradition of the Italian businessman when he was in Malaysia? It is immoral to make it a political issue now," party spokesman Satyavrat Chaturvedi told PTI.

Making it clear that the Congress has 'nothing to do' with the development, he said that the government and the CBI were looking into the matter.

The Congress reaction came close on the heels of the BJP's criticism of the Congress-led government over New Delhi's failed attempt to secure extradition of Quattrocchi from Argentina, accusing it of botching up the plea for his deportation to face trial in India in connection with the Bofors scandal.