Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 25: Special Judge Anticorruption (CBI cases), Vinod Chatterji Koul today decided six charge-sheets filed by CBI and acquitted OP Dingra, the then Cashier-cum-Clerk in Rural Bank Branch Khour, who was accused of misappropriating Rs 14,14,700.
After hearing S K Kantiwal, Senior PP for CBI whereas Advocate KS Parihar for the accused person, court observed, “there are common legal flaws in the investigation and the trial conducted by the prosecution in all the charge sheets like non proving of FIR, non examination of IO, non sending of disputed initials purportedly of J R Sharma, who has passed the fake withdrawal vouchers, why cashier has given payment when the signatures of account holder were forged or the signatures of Passing Officer were forged, to whom the payments were made, why accused was dealing with cash, as alleged by prosecution when there was clear cut order in the knowledge of the branch officials debarring accused to deal with cash, if the Day Book has been inflated why the entries were authenticated by the Passing Officer and why the important witnesses including the IO were not examined by the prosecution during the trial”.
“It is painful to the judicial conscious that prosecution took almost 10 years to lead incomplete evidence”, the court said, adding “it is amply clear that charges levelled against the accused have become causality due to haphazard approach of the prosecution resulting”.
With these observations, court acquitted accused from the charges leveled against him.
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