India, March 5 -- A special CBI court has discharged senior Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel who was accused of trying to frame a Chhattisgarh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rajesh Munat in a sleaze CD case in 2017, his lawyer said.

Special Magistrate (CBI) Raipur, Bhupesh Kumar Basant, granted relief to the former chief minister after reviewing his discharge application, stating that the allegations against him in the charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) could not be substantiated.

"We had moved a discharge petition which the court had accepted and it was found that no evidence was found about making and distributing the alleged CD," Baghel's counsel Manish Datt said.

Datt added that the order was passed ...