seeing, amplifying and distilling the CD have found no vestige of any reference, not even remotely, to any illegality, corrupt practice, or wrongdoing. ‘Specifically, some sections of the print and visual media are spreading a falsehood simply b
y repetition and hearsay that there is reference in the CD to the promise of any post. No one has heard any such reference in the CD. There is none simply because it does not exist. It is pure imagination, wishful thinking and sensationalism.”As a political or professional class, instead of gleefully watching, promoting or participating in a persons natural and understandable discomfiture, we must respect privacy issues,’Singhvi asserted.
‘Either the CD is morphed or it is not. In either event it raises no public interest issues, yet evokes salacious private and prurient interest and contumacious Internet violation of a flagrant kind.’Singhvi said the canard was spread simply to give the issue a public interest flavour, since otherwise the contents of the CD, ‘assuming them to be true, ( which they certainly are not), would disclose only something private and consensual giving a cause of action only to aggrieved family members ( who have stood completely by me) and to no one else.'( The lady who figures in the CD purportedly shot in his Delhi High Court chamber has also not reacted.) A prominent senior advocate and son of late jurist L M Singhvi, a former High Commissioner in London, Abhishek acquired a high profile last year when the standing committee ( from which he resigned) headed by him gave recommendations on the Lokpal Bill, many of which were accepted by the government.
He said it was lamentable that canards were being spread about a CD, which has, in fact, been accepted thrice over to be ‘fabricated and morphed.”The drivers disclosure statement to the police, his detailed written statement in the high court and his oral statement recorded on oath physically in the presence of the judge, all explain how and why he created this fabrication.
A reputed media house ( India Today), which was co- defendant in the suit, also recorded a consent statement based on the statement of the author of the CD i. e. the driver. A permanent final decree of injunction has been passed over five days ago,’Singhvi said.
Singhvi said it was noteworthy that the drivers threatening and blackmailing SMSes sent to his phone had been recorded in the last week of March followed by a detailed four- page police complaint filed as far back as March 29, a full 13 days before the alleged CDs first surfaced in the media.
