Gandhinagar, 13 October 2014

Former union minister Madhavsinh Solanki has moved a petition before the Delhi High Court for quashing the FIR that was registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in 2003 in connection with the Bofors scam.

Solanki – the then foreign minister in year 1992 had handed over a note to Swiss Foreign Minister Rene Felber during his official visit to Davos.

Solanki under PV Narasimha Rao, had quietly passed on an unsigned memo to his Swiss counterpart at Davos, suggesting suspension of Bofors investigation in Switzerland.

When this issue came to light, Solanki had to resign from his post of foreign minister and never could rejoin politics.

The CBI on April 4, 2003 registered an FIR against Solanki accusing him of producing false evidence under the provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).

Solanki had challenged the said FIR in the Delhi HC.

However, that application was not allowed and the matter was referred to the lower court dealing specially with the Bofors case. The lower court, meanwhile, dismissed Solanki’s petition following which he again moved the Delhi High Court.