New Delhi, May 13: The Congress on Wednesday rejected as "politically motivated" BJP charge that the UPA government had doctored documents given to Swiss authorities relating to deposits in a Swiss bank allegedly by Pune-based stud farm owner Hassan Ali Khan.
Describing BJP's allegation as "mischievous, misleading and politically motivated”, the party said the government had acted on the basis of documents seized from Khan's premises.
"It is not correct that the Indian government forged any document or the Government of India submitted forged documents," party spokesman Anand Sharma said in a statement here.
"Therefore, the insinuation that the Government of India doctored any document is false and contrary to facts," he said.
BJP had yesterday accused the government of submitting forged papers to the Swiss authorities about Khan.
Sharma said the I-T department had conducted a search on the premises of Khan in January 2007 and one of the documents recovered showed that he has USD 8 billion deposits in the United Bank of Switzerland and the bank has permitted him to withdraw six billion.
"The Swiss authorities have informed that the documents recovered from Khan and his associates sent to Swiss authorities were forged," Sharma said.
Rather than dropping the case against Khan on the ground that the documents were forged, the government went ahead to initiate the case against him in December 2008, he said.
He said vigorous efforts have been made to elicit information on illegal money in Swiss accounts.
