{"id":42332,"date":"2016-12-10T13:47:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T13:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=42332"},"modified":"2016-12-10T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T13:48:07","slug":"tyagi-blames-pms-office-for-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/tyagi-blames-pms-office-for-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyagi blames PMs office for scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Indian Air Force (IAF) chief S P Tyagi, who was arrested in AgustaWestland choppers case, blamed former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh&#8217;s office for irregularities in the Rs 3,600 crore deal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cProcurement of chopper deal was a collective decision,\u201d SP Tyagi&#8217;s counsel told a Delhi court on Saturday, asserting that Tyagi alone cannot be blamed for the deal and that it was Manmohan Singh&#8217;s office that made changes in the deal to favour AgustaWestland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42333\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tyagi_650_042816082226.jpg\" alt=\"Tyagi blames PMs office for scam\" width=\"650\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cChoppers were meant for VVIPs. Prime Minister\u2019s Office (PMO) suggested the change of service ceiling (6000 metres). How many times did VVIPs visit Siachen?,\u201d the counsel asked in court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tyagi and other accused in the case were sent to CBI remand till December 14 by the Delhi Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tyagi, who retired in 2007, was questioned by the CBI extensively in the past in this case. Along with Tyagi, his cousin Sanjiv alias Julie Tyagi and lawyer Gautam Khaitan were also arrested on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42334\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sp-tyagi_650x400_81462848288.jpg\" alt=\"Tyagi blames PMs office for scam\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On January 1, 2014, India had scrapped the contract with Finmeccanica&#8217;s British subsidiary AgustaWestland for supplying 12 AW-101 VVIP choppers to the IAF over alleged breach of contractual obligations and charges of paying kickbacks of Rs 423 crore by it for securing the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Indian Air Force (IAF) chief S P Tyagi, who was arrested in AgustaWestland choppers case, blamed former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh&#8217;s office for irregularities in the Rs 3,600 crore deal. \u201cProcurement of chopper deal was a collective decision,\u201d SP Tyagi&#8217;s counsel told a Delhi court on Saturday, asserting that Tyagi alone cannot be blamed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[19683,19937,19938,19934,19936,3220,19933,19935,19941,19932,19939,7247,18083,19677,19931,19940,15742],"class_list":["post-42332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-agustawestland","tag-alias-julie-tyagi","tag-british-subsidiary","tag-cbi-extensively","tag-cousin-sanjiv","tag-delhi-court","tag-ex-prime-minister","tag-gautam-khaitan","tag-iaf","tag-indian-air-force","tag-kickbacks","tag-manmohan-singh","tag-pmo","tag-sp-tyagi","tag-tyagi","tag-tyagi-blames-pms-office-for-scam","tag-vvips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20sd3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}