New Delhi: JDU (Janata Dal United) leader Jaya Jaitley today (Oct 1, 2004) charged the Centre with attempting to save Tehelka dotcom and the First Global stock broking firm which funded the expose on the arms deal.

She was reacting to the affidavit filed by the Centre before the Commission of Inquiry probing the Tehelka expose on alleged corruption in Defence deals in which the Government said the question of motives behind the journalistic exposure could not be the subject matter of inquiry.

"The truth would never be out if there was no probe into the journalistic ethics of Tehelka and the motive behind the making of the tape," she told reporters after emerging from the proceedings of the Commission.

"It is obvious that the Government is trying to save Tehelka and First Global," Jaitley, who figures in the tapes, said.

The Congress-led Government was also indulging in "double standards" as the party demanded a full-fledged inquiry into the Judeo tape scandal and at the same time in the case of Tehelka it was not going into to why the tape was made, she said.