The federal government has wound up the 24-year-old Multi-Disciplinary Monitoring Company (MDMA) constituted to probe the broader conspiracy into the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, officers have mentioned.
MDMA was working underneath the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and comprised officers from a number of central safety businesses.
The order to disband the company was issued in Could and the pending investigation has been handed over to a special unit of the CBI, the officers mentioned.
The company was arrange in 1998 for 2 years on the advice of MC Jain Fee and was given annual extensions, however it failed to attain any main breakthrough.
The company, headed by a deputy inspector common of police-ranked officer, had despatched 24 Letters Rogatory to nations like Sri Lanka, the UK and Malaysia searching for data on numerous elements of the case, together with banking transactions.
Over 20 requests had been responded to by these nations and solely few had been remaining, they mentioned.
Sources mentioned the probe was nearly full and the problem of some pending judicial requests or Letters Rogatory despatched by the MDMA will now be dealt with by the CBI.
The MDMA — initially headed by a joint director-ranked officer earlier than being handed over to the DIG — didn’t carry on file any startling revelation concerning the conspiracy which had tentacles in a number of nations, they mentioned.
Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by an LTTE suicide bomber named Dhanu throughout an election rally in Tamil Nadu’s Sriperumbudur on Could 21, 1991.