New Delhi, October 17
The government today informed the Supreme Court that former CBI Director AP Singh was possibly helping the accused in a number of cases when he was heading the investigation agency for two years till November 30, 2012.

“The phone tapping of meat exporter Moin Qureshi showed that he was in touch with Singh on a daily basis on a variety of subjects related to helping accused persons,” Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told a Bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur.

“I was pained when I read this report,” the AG told the Bench while submitting it to the court in four volumes in sealed covers. “What I have disclosed is only the trailer. The real movie you will see when you read the report,” Rohatgi said.

The report, which was based on the telephone tapping and the subsequent income tax raids on the premises of Qureshi, talked about the “contacts maintained by him with senior dignitaries”. “It discloses the astonishing state of affairs and the behaviour of the then CBI Director which was wholly unbecoming of the post,” the AG said. Some of these conversations were “in code language”, he said without elaborating further.

The Bench, which included Justices Kurian Joseph and AK Sikri, had sought the report to ascertain the allegation against the present CBI Director Ranjit Sinha that he had met Qureshi several times at his official residence. According to the allegation, Qureshi was acting as a middleman between Sinha and some of the accused in the 2G scam and coal block allocation scam cases to botch up the investigation against them.

The tapping, however, did not show any telephonic conversation between Qureshi and Sinha, the AG said.