AAP leader Prashant Bhushan. AAP leader Prashant Bhushan.

Senior lawyer and Aam Aadmi Party leader Prashant Bhushan has moved an application before the Delhi High Court seeking a court-monitored investigation by the CBI or a special investigation team (SIT) into the allegations of corruption against Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh.In the application filed on Friday on behalf of the NGO Common Cause, Bhushan has alleged that Virbhadra accepted bribe from Venture Energy and Technology Pvt. Ltd. which was executing a power project in the state. Virbhadra and his wife accepted Rs 3.9 crore through cheques from the firm but the same was not mentioned in the affidavit filed by Singh to contest the state assembly elections on October 17, 2012, the application alleged.It added that Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley had also levelled the same allegation against the Himachal chief minister. Bhushan, in his earlier application on November 20 last year, had sought an inquiry into the allegations of corruption against Virbhadra as Union steel minister.He had alleged that the CBI had not probed the corruption allegations which compelled him to file a PIL in the court. The Delhi court had sought a status report from the CBI on Bhushan's application. Bhushan's fresh application is likely to be heard on January 15.