New Delhi, January 16

BJP leader Ajay Agrawal, who fought the 2014 LS election against Congress  leader Sonia Gandhi from Rai Bareli, had a difficult time on Monday in the SC which questioned his locus standi to file a special leave petition to revive the politically-sensitive Rs 64 crore Bofors pay-offs case.“You need to satisfy us that a third person can file a special leave petition in a criminal case,” a bench headed by CJI Dipak Misra told Agrawal, who went on to argue about threat to national security due to the scam, rather than the legal point raised by the Bench. He accused the CBI of being hand in glove with the accused Hinduja brothers.The Bench pointed out that the CBI had not filed any appeal before it against the 2005 verdict of the Delhi HC and wondered how a person not connected with the case could move the SC. — TNS