New Delhi: The CBI on Thursday submitted a report to the Government in which it is understood to have said that the voice sample of Union Minister Manikrao Gavit had not matched a TV news channel's report of a purported conversation between him and a gangster.
The report came after the CBI registered a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) to ascertain the authencity of the news channel's report about the purported conversation between Gavit and a jailed gangster in Uttar Pradesh, official sources said.
The Central Forensic Science Laboratory compared Gavit's voice sample, recorded on August 21, with the voice on the tapes seized from Zee Telefilms, they said. A voice modulation test showed variable frequencies between the two voices.
The PE was registered following a direction from the Prime Minister's Office, asking the CBI to ascertain whether the voice in the TV report was that of Gavit and to verify the news channel's charge that he had links with gangsters in Uttar Pradesh.
The CBI will now await fresh instructions from the Government as to whether it should begin a probe into any alleged conspiracy behind the matter and those who hatched it, the sources said.
Gavit has denied meeting or talking to Sunder Bhati, the gangster named in the TV report.
The government will table the report on the CBI probe in Parliament tomorrow, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi told reporters.
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