Shimla, Aug 27 - Noisy scenes were witnessed in the Himachal Pradesh assembly Thursday with Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal saying there was 'no conspiracy over the registration of cases against union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh and his wife'.

The trouble started when Independent legislator Rakesh Pathania wanted discussion on Singh's recent assertions to the media against the government for registering what he called false and frivolous corruption cases against him and his wife Pratibha Singh. Pathania demanded Singh's resignation from the union cabinet.

This agitated the Congress legislators and they started arguing with Pathania.

Dhumal intervened and tried to explain the stand of the government over the registration of the cases and tried to clarify on the allegations levelled by Singh.

'There is no conspiracy over the registration of cases against Singh and his wife. The CD (on the basis of which the cases were registered) was released by Singh's political adversary Vijai Singh Mankotia in May 2007. The Chandigarh-based Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) has said in its report that the voices of Singh and his wife matched with that on the CD. That (CFSL) too is a (central) government agency... so the government has no role in the registration of cases.

'If he (Singh) is guilty, he should accept it.