Sarba alleges CBI manipulation

Guwahati, May 24 (UNI) AGP MP Sarbananda Sonowal today alleged that the Congress government had started manipulating CBI against him relating him to a murder case 20 years back.

Addressing a press conference here, Mr Sonowal said that he got a court summon in regard to murder of Saurav Bora, a naxal activist in 1986, and there were ''indications'' that a closed case was reopened to target him politically by the Congress.

''I was a student leader that time and along with me number of student leaders of Dibrugarh district were interrogated initially by CID and then CBI'' he said adding ''We had been put under lie detector test and in 1995, the CBI submitted final report exonerating me of any involvement in the case''.

''But 12 years after that final report and after contesting and winning three general elections, I was astonished to get a court summon in the same case. Initially, I tried to ignore that but when I realised that there was now a case against me for ignoring the court, I today through my lawyers sought details about the case,'' he said.

''This only conforms that CBI was manipulated by the Congress party to finish me off politically. Others how a closed case can return me to haunt again after 11 years'' he said alleging that some of the ministers of the state government had been ''working hard'' to eliminate him politically.

Mr. Sonowal is a MP from Dibrugarh constituency. He defeated Mr Paban Singh Ghatowar of the Congress in the last Lok Sabha election.

UNI