Demand for Interpol help in Chautala case

Chandigarh, May 16 (UNI) Senior Congress leader Karan Singh Dalal today urged the CBI to take the Interpol help to unearth the properties allegedly owned by former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala and his family in the US, the UK and Australia.

''A request is being made to the CBI Director that the whole of property owned by the Chautala family in the US, the UK and Australia be forfeited and for this purspose the help of the Interpol and other international agencies may kindly be taken,'' Mr Dalal, MLA, said at press conference here.

It was at Mr Dalal's residence last year that the CBI had found and collected a copy of a ''chargesheet'' prepared by the Congress against Mr Chautala for having allegedly amassed thousands of crores of rupees through corrupt means.

The CBI had raided over two dozen residential and commercial premises of the Chautala family recently in connection with a disproportionate assets case lodged on the basis of the Congress chargesheet. The agency had valued Mr Chautala's assets at over Rs 1400 crore and filed an FIR against him.

Mr Dalal also demanded arrest of Abhey Chautala, son of Mr Om Prakash Chautala, in connection with the murder of a Youth Congress leader in Sirsa in which a conspiracy case had been booked against the Chautala junior.

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