New Delhi: In no mood to show leniency to the ‘black sheep’ in judiciary, the Supreme Court on Monday sought the Centre’s response to a recent UP government recommendation for a CBI probe into the infamous Rs 23-crore illegal PF withdrawal scam, allegedly involving 34 judges from all three tiers of courts.
This question assumes significance as the UP police, despite revealing that it had strong evidence on the alleged involvement of 34 judges — one in Supreme Court, 8 in Allahabad High Court, one each in Uttarakhand and Calcutta HCs and 23 lower court judges — had cited ground level difficulty in continuing with the probe with a suggestion that it should be given to CBI. Pursuant to this disclosure in SC on September 9, the Mayawati government had sent a request to the Centre recommending handing over of the probe to the CBI.
A Bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and M K Sharma, before hearing the Japanese surrogate baby Manji’s plea for travel documents to go back to Japan, asked solicitor general G E Vahanvati whether the Centre was willing to order a CBI probe into the PF scam as per the UP government’s request. “If the CBI is willing to do it, then we can hear the petitions and dispose them of as early as possible,” the Bench said. The petitioners — Ghaziabad Bar Association and Transparency International — had sought a CBI probe into the scam, which the local police had been probing with the Allahabad HC monitoring it. “Take instructions from Centre and let us know. Then we will post petitions for an early hearing,” Bench said.
With the Thanks from the Time of India
Source:- The Times of India 16 Sep. 2008 P.16
For any query:- legalpoint@aol.in
With the Thanks from the Time of India
Source:- The Times of India 16 Sep. 2008 P.16
For any query:- legalpoint@aol.in
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