Gautam Khaitan, a lawyer accused in AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case, told a Delhi court Monday that Enforcement Directorate was forcing him to falsely implicate someone influential in "any defence deal" which happened during the UPA regime.
Khaitan, arrested in a fresh case of alleged possession of black money and money laundering, made the statement before Special Judge Arvind Kumar, who extended his custodial interrogation by the ED for five more days after the probe agency alleged that the accused knows all the persons related to arms deals other than AgustaWestland.
Khaitan's advocate P K Dubey told the court that there was no fresh ground for present case.
Dubey said: "They asked me (Khaitan) to give any name involved in any defence deal (of UPA period). They asked to give any name, that they needed it within these two months. They are constantly forcing me to give name and I will be absolved.
"When Michel (middleman recently extradited from Dubai) came, you (ED) said he had taken my name and I was required to be confronted. But nothing came out of that case. Now you have come up with this case."
Alleging false implication, he further added, "Any new law comes and the test is done on me (Khaitan). I have been made a monkey on whom every test is done."