Daijiworld Media Network

New Delhi, Jul 21: The Delhi police have been granted permission to question Amar Singh in connection to the cash-for-votes scam. The interrogation is likely to take place on Friday July 22.

The Delhi police had earlier sought permission from the Rajya Sabha to question Singh as he is a Rajya Sabha MP.

Singh's former aide Sanjeev Saxena had alleged that Singh had paid three Bharatiya Janata Party MPs to abstain from voting in the trust vote in 2008.

After Saxena was arrested, Singh had refused to accept that the two knew each other well. However, it was later learnt that Singh had introduced Saxena as his secretary to the three MPs.

In a sting operation conducted by a news channel, Saxena was taped offering one crore rupees in cash to the MPs to vote in favour of the UPA during a no-confidence vote moved against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh  in July 2008.  The MPs namely Ashok Argal, Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Bhagora had barged into the Lok Sabha just before the trust vote and waved the wads of notes.

The news channel is said to have conducted the sting operation at the request of Sudheendra Kulkarni, who was then an advisor to senior BJP leader L K Advani.