CHENNAI: In a major step in the investigation relating to the controversial "Vasisht Wahan" project in Andhra Pradesh, the CBI has written to the Union Government seeking its permission to file a request for Letter Rogatory (LR) before the jurisdictional court.

Even as this process is on, the investigating agency is awaiting the issue of the red corner notice issued by the International Police Organisation (Interpol) against two persons wanted by the police in connection with the case, a top CBI officer told The Hindu .

The letter seeking the Government of India's permission would go through the CBI headquarters.

The investigating agency had written to the Centre, and upon getting its nod, would file a petition in the jurisdictional court seeking issue of a letter of request to the competent authority for investigation in a country or place outside India.

The evidence so collected from the foreign country, following the issue of LR, could be used in the court in India.

The sources said that the investigating agency was hopeful of coming out with another major breakthrough in the case in the next few days.

In all, a sum of Rs.11.67 crore was allegedly misappropriated. Of this, Rs. 5 crore had been recovered from a person from Bangalore.

Even as an intensive investigation was continuing, warrants had been issued against Jagdish Alagar Raja, a former director of the proposed project, and Mr. Schuster, who was the Volkswagen representative in India till he quit after the scam surfaced.

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