Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 3: High Court has stayed the FIR against the then Tehsildar and others registered by the Vigilance Organization under Prevention of Corruption Act and Sections 468, 471 and 120-B RPC.
After hearing Senior Advocate Sunil Sethi with Advocate Summit Nayyar appearing for the petitioner Pawan Kumar Kohli, the then Tehsildar, Justice Janak Raj Kotwal issued notices to SSP Vigilance and in the meanwhile ordered that subject to objections from other side, investigation in the FIR shall remain stayed.
During the course of hearing, Senior Advocate Sunil Sethi submitted that the impugned FIR against the petitioners was illegal and bad in the eyes of law on the ground that the petitioners have not committed any offence much less the offences alleged against them.
“Whatever action was initiated and taken by the petitioners while serving as Tehsildar and Patwari at that point of time was strictly in consonance with the provisions of law and was based on the documents which were produced before them at that point of time”, he said, adding “after 16 long years of the alleged occurrence, the petitioners cannot be held guilty of the action which they had taken in discharge of their official duties”.
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