Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 6: High Court today dismissed four petitions filed by Dr Kulbhushan Nahar and Others, Lalit Aditya and Satish Kumar seeking quashment of corruption charges framed against them by the Anti-Corruption Court.
While resisting the petitions, ASGI K K Pangotra appearing for the CBI argued that as the petitioners/accused were involved in the commission of crime FIR was rightly lodged against them. During investigation material documents were seized by the investigating agency and prima facie it came to the conclusion that the petitioners/accused were involved in the commission of offences.
Accordingly, charge sheet in terms of the mandate of Section 173 of the Code of Criminal Procedure was presented before the Court of Special Judge Anti Corruption, Jammu. Trial Court, after examining the final report, the evidence collected during investigation, framed charges against the accused for the commission of offence punishable under Section 5(2) read with Section 5(1)(d) of the PC Act and Section 120-B read with Section 420 of the RPC.
After hearing ASGI KK Pangotra for the CBI and battery of lawyers for the petitioners, Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir observed, “the court is of the considered view that no case for interference is made out. It pains me to record that the petitioners have stalled the proceedings of the trial court right from the last about two years–with effect from September 16, 2011, which is against the concept of speedy trial”.
“Court deemed it proper to dismiss all these petitions with costs of Rs.50,000 each. Let the amount of costs be deposited within a period of one month from today to be utilized for the welfare of orphans by the Social Welfare Department”, Justice Mansoor said.
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