Big B 'pained' by fraud allegation

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is distressed over the allegations of his involvement in the Rs 500 crore fraud against him and Samajwadi
Party general secretary Amar Singh. In a pained and comprehensive blog, Big B has sought answers to more than 20 questions ‘‘despite spasmodic shoulder pain’’.

From questioning the reason behind the case of ‘‘a supposed fraud’’ being reported at ‘‘a small almost unknown police station, Babupurwa, in far off Kanpur’’, to pointing out how bogus FIRs, Bofors and Barabanki have bogged him down time and again, the Bollywood superhero says it all.

‘‘Is it a fact that no police officer was willing to register the case as they couldn’t find anything wrong?’’ he asks. That inspector of Babupurwa refused to register the complaint and was transferred an hour before the new inspector came in to lodge the FIR as his first job at the new post?

That the government later discovered that all proper procedures had been followed by the ‘‘accused’’ in the FIR? That clearances from the Income Tax Department, the Company Law Board and the hon’ble High Court of Kolkata had been obtained? And that finding themselves in an embarrassing spot, the authorities washed their hands off and sent the case to Kolkata? The questions, as per his admission, are based on his ‘‘own little enquiry’’.

Closely following the developments in regard to the Kanpur FIR, Bachchan expresses relief over the Allahabad high court dismissing a petition seeking the court’s monitoring of the investigations and progress into the FIR.

‘‘Meanwhile, back home, that most obnoxiously constructed case of this fraud of Rs 500 crore has reached another proportion,’’ his Sunday blog reads.

‘‘Without warning and with an intent to save face, the administration, on receiving its complaint back from Kolkata Courts of Law stating there was no illegality in the matter, moved Allahabad HC without informing us, or without seeking our desire for representation.

This afternoon the matter was dismissed by the hon’ble HC, in our favour apparently stating that there was no basis to this case!

‘‘I have much to say on this. But now my pain intensifies. I have to travel tomorrow to contribute in and open a diabetic center in another city. I must rest,’’ he concludes, but not without promising ‘‘more later’’.