Cash-at-door scam: Court adjourns hearing
May 11th, 2011 - 8:43 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, May 11 (IANS) The Punjab and Haryana High Court here Wednesday adjourned till May 20 hearing in the bribery scandal involving former judge Nirmal Yadav, which rocked this union territory in 2008.
Yadav has sought quashing of the chargesheet filed against her by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The CBI had filed the chargesheet against Yadav for corruption, conspiracy, destroying evidence and creation of false evidence, in the special court of CBI here March 4. Following this, CBI Special Judge Ritu Tagore told Yadav to appear before the court May 18.
Yadav had moved the high court Monday.
In her petition, Yadav stated that the chargesheet against her is motivated by vested interests and is an abuse of law.
The high-profile case had rocked this union territory in August 2008.
Yadav was posted at Uttarakhand High Court March 4, the day on which chargesheet was filed against her, and she was retired on the same day.
President Pratibha Patil had given sanction for Yadav’s prosecution in February this year.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court was hit by this scam after a packet containing Rs.1.5 million in cash was delivered Aug 13, 2008 at the Sector 11 residence of high court Judge Nirmaljit Kaur. She had complained to the police and registered a first information report (FIR).
The police later arrested the (then) Haryana additional advocate general Sanjeev Bansal, a property dealer Rajiv Gupta and Delhi-based hotelier Ravinder Singh Bhasin.
Bansal and Gupta told the police that the money was meant for another high court judge, Nirmal Yadav. They claimed that another packet containing Rs.1.5 million was separately delivered to Yadav at her Sector 24 official residence later.
Yadav went on leave after her name figured in this bribery scandal. She was later transferred to Uttarakhand High Court.
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