VVIP chopper case accused former IAF chief SP Tyagi allowed to travel abroad

Special Judge Arvind Kumar permitted former IAF chief SP Tyagi Tyagi and his cousin Sanjeev Tyagi’s plea to go to the United States of America.

A Delhi court Monday allowed former Air Chief SP Tyagi, accused in the VVIP chopper case lodged by the CBI, to travel abroad in March next year.

Former Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi departing from the CBI headquarters on May 2, 2016. (HT File Photo)

Special Judge Arvind Kumar permitted Tyagi and his cousin Sanjeev Tyagi’s plea to go to the United States of America.

Hearing on a similar plea filed by them them in the ED’s money laundering case was adjourned to January 3.

If the ED opposes the plea to travel abroad, the court may deny permission later.

The CBI on September 1, 2017, had filed a charge sheet in the case in which Tyagi and British national Christian Michel were named among the accused.

Nine others were also named in the charge sheet in connection with a bribery case in the VVIP chopper deal.

Tyagi (73) is the first chief of the Indian Air Force to be charge sheeted in a corruption or a criminal case by the CBI and he has denied all charges against him.