The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday demanded an inquiry by a sitting judge of the Supreme Court into the CBI's 'Argentine fiasco' as an El Dorado Court
rejected its plea to extradite Italian businessman and key accused in the Bofors scam,
Ottavio Quattrocchi, to stand trial in the case.
Talking to the media persons in Hyderabad, BJP spokesman Prakash Javadeker alleged that the UPA government's mission to save Quattrocchi had succeeded at the cost of the nation.
"Failure to get the Italian fugitive extradited was nothing but compromising on national interests to please the first family of the Congress," he alleged.
Seeking explanation from the government on two counts, he questioned why CBI Prosecution Director S K Sharma, on deputation from Law Ministry, was sent to Argentina despite already expressing the legal view the case did not exist against Quattrocchi.
He wondered how the secret documents, including the file notings of the CBI, were available to Quattrocchi's counsel.
When told that Quattrocchi's counsel could have got them through the Right to Information Act or through the