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Government denies Jethmalani's charges

The government Thursday denied allegations by former law minister Ram Jethmalani against Chief Justice A S Anand and Attorney General Soli Sorabjee.

Reacting to Jethmalani's remarks against the chief justice and attorney general at a press conference Thursday afternoon, Law Minister Arun Jaitely told newspersons, ''The government completely disagrees with remarks made against them.''

He said the remark against Sorabjee, for giving consultancy to the Hindujas and a telecom company, were wrong.

Sorabjee had given consultancy on the issue of a counter guarantee for an Andhra Pradesh power project, being set up by the Hindujas, and not on the Bofors case, as reported in the media, Jaitely said.

Jaitely said the Rajya Sabha secretariat had sought the government's opinion on papers filed by the former minister to the office of the Rajya Sabha Chairman.

The government told the secretariat that some papers submitted by Jethmalani were ''marked secret'', particularly communication between the chief justice and the law minister. So these papers could not be laid on the table of the House, it said.

The secretariat had communicated that to Jethmalani and he had decided not to make a statement in the House.

Reiterating Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's stand, Jaitely said that the government had decided to probe the ''leakage'' of secret documents, which were part of Jethmalani's submission to the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.

UNI

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