Trying to project the former Samajwadi party leader, Mr Amar Singh, as innocent in the 2008 cash-for-vote-scam, noted constitutional expert and senior counsel Mr Ram Jethmalani took a U-turn and told the special court of Delhi today that the so called money in the cash for vote scam had come from Mr Ahmad Patel, political adviser to the congress president, Sonia Gandhi.

Seeking bail for Amar Singh, Ram Jethmalani, who earlier said that the money must have come from the BJP since the BJP members waved the bundles of cash in the Lok Sabha, said that the bribe money was paid at the Le Meridien Hotel in Delhi by Ahmad Patel whose congress government was to be saved.

“The bribe was not paid at the house of Amar Singh and not paid by Amar Singh,” he said and projected Ahmad Patel as the source of the money involved in the cash-for-vote scam. There was no allegation anywhere that Amar Singh had arranged the money, Jethmalani had told the court.

Earlier on September 12, Jethmalani told the Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal that the bribe amount must have come from the BJP only as the party leader Mr LK Advani had said their party had conducted a sting operation.