New Delhi:
The CBI took the sanction to prosecute retired Allahabad High Court Judge SN Shukla in a corruption case for allegedly supporting a private medical college on his orders, the officials said. official said.
The CBI filed a request to the high court to prosecute the retired judge on April 16 this year, under the Anti-Corruption Act, they said.
With the consent of the supreme court, the CBI can proceed with a charge against the retired judge.
Besides Justice Shukla of the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court, the body has also appointed retired Chhattisgarh High Court judges IM Quddusi, Bhagwan Prasad Yadav and Palash Yadav of Prasad Education Trust, the chief justices. trustee and individuals Bhavna Pandey and Sudhir Giri in the FIR, they said.
The defendants have been charged under Section 120B of the IPC (criminal conspiracy) and the provisions of the Anti-Corruption Act.
In order to obtain a favorable order, it is alleged that illegal gratification was entrusted to one of the defendants named in the FIR, officials said.
The CBI did not need sanctions to prosecute Quddusi because he was a retired judge at the time the alleged conduct occurred and was alleged to have acted as an individual. Shukla joined the Allahabad High Court on October 5, 2005 and retired on July 17, 2020, according to the Supreme Court’s website.
After filing the FIR, CBI conducted searches at multiple locations in Lucknow, Meerut and Delhi.
It is alleged that the Prasad Institute of Health Sciences was opposed by the Center to admit students due to substandard facilities and did not meet the required criteria in May 2017, along with 46 high schools Other medical colleges were opposed for the same reason, officials said.
They added that the objection decision was challenged by trust before the Supreme Court through a written petition.
Thereafter, a conspiracy was made by those named in the FIR and the petition was withdrawn with the permission of the court.
Officials said another written petition was filed in front of the Lucknow high court bench on August 24, 2017.
It is also alleged in the FIR that the lawsuit was heard on August 25, 2017 by a division of the court including Judiciary Shukla, and that the beneficial order was passed on the same day, they added.
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