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As the case assumed political hues, Additional Chief Secretary RD Dhiman referred it to the VACB.

The immediate fallout of the controversy was that then Himachal BJP president Dr Rajeev Bindal had to resign from the post on May 27. The resignation ostensibly came to uphold high moral ground in the wake of turmoil created by the audio recording and to facilitate free and fair probe.

In his one-page resignation sent to BJP national president JP Nadda, Dr Bindal had said, “Fingers are being raised on the BJP after the arrest of the former DHS and being the president of the party, I feel that the matter should be investigated properly without any pressure and I am submitting my resignation keeping in view the high moral values”.

The local media was agog with reports of a close associate of a “senior” BJP leader being questioned in the case. The BJP government also came under attack from the Opposition Congress.