New Delhi: Uttarakhand former Chief Minister Harish Rawat and his then cabinet colleague Harak Singh Rawat were booked by CBI under for alleged attempts of Horse trading, which was caught on tape by an editor of a news channel.

            As per the sources, CBI had conducted a preliminary enquiry into the alleged horse trading attempt on March 23, 2016, when the state was under president rule. It sent the tape to the FSL Gandhi Nagar in Gujarat for analysis which opined that the recording was denied. The FSL also in its report said that there was no evidence of any addition / deletion / insertion / tampering / morphing in the video tapes.

         In this video purportedly showed the Congress leader discussing money to win back the support of disgruntled MLA’s who had crossed over to the BJP, so that he could get back to the power.