Ex-CAG Vinod Rai tenders apology to Cong leader Sanjay Nirupam

Former CAG Vinod Rai has tendered an unconditional apology to Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam for “wrongly mentioning” him as one of the MPs who had pressured him not to name former prime minister Manmohan Singh in the CAG report on 2G spectrum allocation.

Nirupam had filed a defamation case against Rai after the former CAG in his book in 2014 made the allegation against him and repeated it in interviews to the media. The court of Metropolitan Magistrate in Patiala House has disposed of the case after recording Nirupam’s statement accepting Rai’s apology.

“Vinod Rai has been discharged in the case. Since his apology has been accepted by Nirupam, the case has been disposed of after recording his statement,” Nirupam’s advocate R K Handoo told PTI.