Sting CD Row: CBI Questions Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat

The sting video allegedly shows Rawat trying to bribe BJP MLAs into defecting.

Harish Rawat at a press conference in Dehradun. (Photo: IANS)

• The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday questioned Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat in the wake of a sting operation video showing him offering bribes to buy legislative support in the state assembly.
  
  

• The sting video showed Rawat offering money to rebel Congress legislators to win their support ahead of a 28 March floor test in the 70-member Uttarakhand house. The floor test never happened as the state came under President’s Rule a day earlier.
  
  
• Rawat had denied the allegation and called the video fake after it was released. But he later admitted that he was on camera in the sting operation.

(With agency inputs.)

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