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NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday assured early hearing to a PIL petitioner who sought CBI probe into "troubling allegations" made on the floor of the Karnataka assembly that a CM-aspirant had successfully honeytrapped several people, including judges. A bench headed by CJI Sanjiv Khanna told counsel Barun Sinha that the PIL would be listed soon for hearing before an appropriate bench. The petitioner, a Jharkhand-based social activist-cum-columnist & author of four books, said, "allegations have been made by a sitting minister who has claimed himself to be a victim, thereby lending credence to them.
" "Not only that, another minister of govt has also not only echoed the allegations but alleged that the scale and proportion of the scandal is at least 10 times than what is currently visible," petitioner Binay Kumar Singh said. He said allegations of honeytrapping judges pose a serious threat to the independence of judiciary and could undermine public confidence in justice delivery system. It is imperative for SC to get to the roots of these allegations, he said.
Though the petitioner did not name the CM-aspirant, political circles in Bengaluru and Delhi are agog with speculation about intense feuding in Congress over the continuance of Siddaramaiah as Karnataka CM. tnn.
