SC adjourns hearing in 'Sex CD case' involving Chhattisgarh CM

The Supreme Court bench led by Justice Ashok Bhushan adjourned hearing the transfer petition filed by the CBI in the 'sex CD case' involving Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel to the second week of February.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned to the second week of February the transfer petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the 2017 criminal trial involving Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel in the sex CD case.

The apex court bench led by Justice Ashok Bhushan adjourned to the second week of February the transfer petition filed by CBI in the trial involving Baghel and four others.

The CBI had registered a case in 2017 against Baghel, then Chhattisgarh Congress president, on a complaint that he had allegedly tried to frame the then state PWD minister and BJP leader Rajesh Munat in the fake sex CD case.

Munat, the then Chhattisgarh PWD Minister in the Raman Singh cabinet and a BJP leader, had filed a complaint against Baghel and senior journalist Vinod Verma for allegedly tarnishing his image through a "fake" sex CD.

The then state BJP government had transferred the case to the CBI which has filed the charge-sheet in the case.

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