Prashant Bhushan Alleges, Justice Srikrishna Gave Negative Telangana Report Under Pressure

New Delhi, May 31: Activist, lawyer and member of the drafting panel of the Lokpal Bill Prashant Bhushan has alleged that Justice B N Srikrishna, who headed the high-powered committee on the Telangana issue, wrote a negative report at the behest of corporate firms working with the motive to keep Hyderabad out of the proposed state.

Speaking at a panel discussion on Telangana in the Capital on Sunday, Bhushan alleged that Justice Srikrishna's "track record" showed that he had favoured corporate firms and cited a 2003 judgment in a case relating to Mauritius double-taxation treaty as an example.

“These very corporates, whom he helped evade tax in the country through that judgment, are now interested in Hyderabad remaining outside Telangana. These corporates are putting pressure on him not to allow the second solution of creation of Telangana with Hyderabad as its capital. This is the real motivation behind the report,” Bhushan said.

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