Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 20: Additional Anticorruption Judge Jammu OP Bhagat has discharged the then Chief Education Officer Tarsem Lal and others in the alleged corruption case.
According to prosecution, the then Chief Education Officer Jammu appointed Amarjeet Singh and Mandeep Kour as ReT teachers in Govt Primary School Dhar Mohalla Sardaran in violation of all norms and rules without publishing the advertisement in the leading news papers.
No application forms were invited for filling of the vacancies, no merit panel was prepared and displayed in the concerned village etc. During the course of verification, it emerged that a New Primary School Dhar Channi Dewano Zone Khour was opened in papers only in the year 2014 by then Chief Education Officer in abnormal haste & in violation of norms of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
Moreover, there was no proposal or sanction of competent authority–Project Director Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan for the opening of school, which existed for a month period in papers only and subsequently shown and merged with the old Primary School of the village Naiwala which clearly indicates that school was opened just to fraudulently adjust the beneficiaries as Rehbar-e-Taleem.
After hearing both the sides, the court observed, “the perusal of charge-sheet and material collected during investigation reveals that there are absolutely no grounds for presuming not to speak of even suspicion about the accused having committed offence under Prevention of Corruption Act”.
“So far as offence under Section 201 RPC is concerned, one of the primary requirements of Section 201 RPC is proof of the actual offence. This is because the question of inducing the disappearance of evidence of crime or concealing the criminal does not arise until an offence has been committed in the first place”, the court said, adding “accordingly, accused present in the court are discharged and challan is dismissed”.
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