The News Minute | January 6, 2015 | 11.50 AM IST

Dr. Subramanian Swamy has written to the Prime Minister to direct the CBI to appeal against an order of the High Court of Delhi which quashed a summons that a trial court had issued against Sonia Gandhi’s private secretary.

Swamy has written that the CBI had made weak a disproportionate assets case against Vincent George during the UPA tenure and had filed a closure report in a trial court in Delhi. The court, however, had issued summons to him and had rejected the “CBI’s dubious move,” he points out in the letter to the Prime Minister.

On December 22, following the appeal filed by Vincent George in the High Court of Delhi, the single bench of the court had quashed the summons. “Unfortunately the CBI counsel continued the UPA’s stand even after our NDA government came back to power,” Swamy has written in the letter.

He alleges that Vincent George had amassed wealth during the period when he was the private assistant to the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, and of his having links with people having links with Dawood Ibrahim. He also alleges that in 2004 the UPA “pressured CBI to put this strong case in cold storage.”