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INX Media Case: Government Issues Sanction To CBI To Prosecute Ex-NITI Aayog CEO, Others

The government had already sanctioned the prosecution of former finance minister P Chidambaram in the case in February this year.

File photo of Central Bureau of Investigation headquarters in New Delhi. (Source: PTI)
File photo of Central Bureau of Investigation headquarters in New Delhi. (Source: PTI)

The government has issued a sanction to the Central Bureau of Investigation to prosecute former NITI Aayog Chief Executive Officer Sindhushree Kullar and others in connection with the Foreign Investment Promotion Board clearance granted to INX Media, officials said.

Besides Khullar, the government has also sanctioned the prosecution of former secretary of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Anup K Pujari, the then director in the Finance Ministry Prabodh Saxena, and former under secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs Rabindra Prasad in the case involving INX Media, they said.

The government had already sanctioned the prosecution of former finance minister P Chidambaram in February this year, the officials said.

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Khullar served as additional secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs during 2004 and 2008. Pujari was the joint secretary during 2006 and 2010; Saxena served as the director of the department between 2008 and 2010, and Prasad also worked during the period under investigation, they said.

An FIR was filed by the CBI on May 15, 2017, alleging irregularities in the FIPB clearance to INX Media for receiving overseas funds in 2007 when Chidambaram was the finance minister in the United Progressive Alliance government.

INX Media was once owned by Peter and Indrani Mukherjea, prime suspects in this money laundering and corruption case.