AICC spokesperson Anand Sharma said the case against Singh was "bogus" and it was regrettable that summons were issued despite the CBI asserting in its closure report that there was nothing on record to support the allegations.
"It is a settled law of the Supreme Court that a person not named in FIR or chargesheet cannot be included in trial unless the evidence has been put through the stringent scrutiny of cross-examination," he said.
As the party announced that it would take legal recourse to tackle the summons' issue, Mahila Congress followed Sonia Gandhi's cue and led a march on Friday to the former PM's residence in public show of solidarity.
A delegation of office-bearers and executive members of the women's wing, led by chief Shobha Oza, reached Singh's Motilal Nehru Marg house where they were received by the former PM and his wife Gursharan Kaur. Singh thanked the visitors and said he will "fight it out".
Sharma, who served in Singh's cabinet in UPA government, lamented that the former PM was being subjected to this treatment when he paved the way for coal auctions through the 2010 Act. "The auctions could not proceed because the case became sub judice after the CAG report. The BJP government is able to go through with auctions because the Supreme Court quashed the coal allocations in September 2014," he said.
The deputy leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha accused BJP of taking the cover of apex court's quashing order to promulgate the coal ordinance in the name of auctions when they could have been done under the 2010 Act. "The intent of the new law through ordinance is not auctions but backdoor denationalization of coal by allowing private mining," he said.
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