Medical College admission scam: CBI Gets Nod to Prosecute Former Allahabad HC Judge
New Delhi: In a major update regarding the medical college admission scam in Uttar Pradesh, the CBI has been given the sanction by the Allahabad High Court to prosecute its former judge Justice S N Shukla for passing a favorable judgment for the medical college back in 2017.
The nod from the High Court has come after the CBI had applied for a go-ahead for prosecuting the retired judge on April 16, 2021, in accordance with the Prevention of Corruption Act. Now, with permission from the High Court, CBI can proceed with a charge sheet against the retired justice, reports PTI.
Besides Justice Shukla of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court, the agency had also named retired Chhattisgarh High Court judge I M Quddusi, Bhagwan Prasad Yadav and Palash Yadav of the Prasad Education Trust, the trust itself, and private persons Bhavna Pandey and Sudhir Giri in the FIR, they said.
The accused were booked under Section 120B of the IPC (criminal conspiracy) and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The move by the CJI had come on the basis of a report by a three-judge in-house committee, comprising Madras High Court Chief Justice Indira Banerjee, Sikkim High Court Chief Justice S K Agnihotri, and Madhya Pradesh High Court judge Justice PK Jaiswal. The Committee had back then concluded that there was sufficient substance in the allegations contained in the complaint against Justice Shukla and that the aberrations were serious enough to call for initiation of proceedings for his removal.
Justice Shukla, who was heading a division bench in the high court, had allegedly defied the categorical restraint orders passed by a CJI-led bench of the apex court to permit private colleges to admit students for the 2017-18 academic session.
Two complaints, including one from the advocate general of the state, were received by the CJI on September 1, 2017, and the then CJI had constituted an in-house committee.
According to the inquiry committee report, Justice Shukla had "disgraced the values of judicial life, acted in a manner unbecoming of a judge", lowered the "majesty, dignity and credibility of his office" and acted in breach of his oath of office.
PTI adds that in order to get a favorable order, illegal gratification was allegedly paid to one of the accused named in the FIR by the trust, the officials said.
After filing the FIR, the CBI had conducted searches at multiple locations in Lucknow, Meerut, and Delhi, they said.
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