Leaders Online Desk: It has come to light that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has closed the 2017 corruption case against Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar faction) leader Praful Patel. The news agency The Wire has given information about this.
The CBI had in May 2017, following a Supreme Court order, booked officials of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Air India to investigate allegations of irregularities in the leasing of aircraft for Air India. After investigating the case for nearly seven years, the CBI has closed its investigation after giving a clean chit to Praful Patel and the then officials of MoCA and Air India, sources said.
