On Tuesday, the Uttarakhand High Court ordered the CBI to investigate into the allegations made by journalist Umesh Kumar over corruption charges against Trivendra Singh Rawat, Chief Minister Uttarakhand.
A single bench of Justice Ravindra Maithani ordered to submit all the documents related to the case before the court while quashing the FIR lodged by the state government against journalist Umesh Kumar.
According to the livelaw, Umesh Sharma (the owner of the local News Channel ‘Samachar plus’) had made a video (in July 2020) related to Rawat’s alleged role of getting money transferred to accounts of his relatives in the year 2016 (as BJP’s Jharkhand in-charge) to back the appointment of a person (AS Chauhan) in Jharkhand to head the Gau Seva Ayog.”
