CBI asked to file fresh report in Aseemanand case

After the CBI failed to file a detailed report on how a confessional statement of Swami Assemanand - who is allegedly involved in the 2008 Ajmer blast - was made public, a Delhi court on Tuesday asked the CBI director to file a fresh report in the case.

After the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) failed to file a detailed report on how a confessional statement of Swami Assemanand - who is allegedly involved in the 2008 Ajmer blast - was made public, a Delhi court on Tuesday asked the CBI director to file a fresh report in the case.

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Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Sanjay Bansal said: "The CBI report is incomplete. I had asked the director of CBI to file it, why is he not here? The CBI director will have to file a fresh, detailed report by Feb 25, without fail."

The CBI had filed a two-page report - incomplete, according to the court - before the court refuting the claim by Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) activist Devender Gupta that it had leaked the confessional statement to the media.

"The CBI had not released a press statement to media containing Swami Aseemanand's confessional statement made under section 164 CrPC," the agency said.

A Delhi court was to pass an order on a plea for registering an FIR against a CBI officer and Tehelka magazine owner and editor for making public Swami Aseemanand's confession to a court about his alleged role in the Ajmer blast case.

The confession was recorded in Delhi by a metropolitan magistrate Dec 18.