New Delhi:  Cash-for-votes scam taking new turn the Delhi Police is nervous about arresting politician Amar Singh even though its chargesheet against him establishes that he designed what’s known as the cash-for-votes scam.  Mr Singh is currently a Rajya Sabha MP.

The Supreme Court has now  given the Delhi Police four more weeks for investigations in the cash for votes scam. The court told investigators to “find the source of the money” which will be “clinching” evidence.

On July 22, 2008, three BJP MPs walked into the Lok Sabha waving bundles of notes, hours before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh faced a trust vote. The MPs said they had been given a crore as advance by Amar Singh’s aides to abstain during the vote, which would help the UPA government. The 3 MPs – Ashok Argal, Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahaveer Bhagora – claim they had been promised nine crores. At the time, Mr Singh was with the Samajwadi Party, which provided external support to the UPA.

The Delhi Police’s investigation claims to have found enough evidence to pin Mr Singh down.  Cellphone records show  Sanjeev Saxena, his associate, made several calls to Mr Singh’s residence in the hours before the trust vote.  The money – a crore – that was paid as an advance to the BJP MPs was delivered in a jeep registered with one of Mr Singh’s companies. Mr Singh’s denial that Mr Saxena worked closely with him has been over-ridden – the police has enough material including notes written by Mr Singh on his official letter-head that declare Mr Saxena to be his aide.