Subramanian Swamy asks SC for CBI probe into RBI official's role in scams

Files PIL in top court, claims the officials have been actively conniving and gravely violating their statutory duties

BJP senior leader Subramanian Swamy has asked the Supreme Court to direct an investigation by CBI or any other competent authority, into the illegalities committed by officials of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in discharge of their official functions, which has resulted in various banking/financial scams in India.

Two advocates M R Venkatesh and Satyapaul Sabharwal have assisted him in filing a PIL today at the Supreme Court.

In the petition, they alleged that officials of the RBI have been in demonstrable active connivance and in grave violations of their statutory duties.

"...no officer of RBI has ever been