The authorities has allowed the CBI to prosecute Shri Narayan Shukla, a retired choose of the Allahabad High Court, in an alleged corruption case. Shukla is accused of taking a bribe to offer a good order to a personal medical school, which was barred by the federal government from accepting admission.
“The sanction to prosecute Shukla got here on Thursday night. The investigation towards him has been accomplished and the method of submitting cost sheet towards him will now start. A CBI official stated that the cost sheet can be filed quickly.
In the FIR lodged on December 4, 2019, Shukla, then a sitting choose together with six others, was launched as an accused, the case pertains to a 2017 case the place the company had accused former Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court I.M. Quddusi was additionally arrested.
The different accused embody Quddusi’s aide Bhavna Pandey, Lucknow-based Medical College Prasad Education Trust (PET), its homeowners BP Yadav and Prasad Yadav and Sudhir Giri.
According to the CBI FIR, the PET-run Prasad Institute of Medical Sciences was amongst 46 schools that had been barred by the federal government in 2017 from admitting college students for 2 years because of lack of amenities.
The FIR stated the faculty challenged the order within the Supreme Court, which directed the federal government to take a contemporary have a look at the fabric on report. The authorities then barred the faculty from providing admission for 2 periods – 2017-18 and 2018-19. It additionally approved the Medical Council of India to encash the faculty’s financial institution assure of Rs 2 crore.
While the promoters of the faculty approached the SC with a petition, in addition they reportedly obtained in contact with Justices Quddusi and Bhavna Pandey who promised to settle the matter.
According to the FIR, a conspiracy was allegedly hatched between BP Yadav, Quddusi, Pandey and Giri (who owns Venkateshwara Medical College in Meerut) to acquire favorable orders from Justice Shri Narayan Shukla of Allahabad High Court in Lucknow Bench. To be. Corrupt and unlawful means. To additional the stated conspiracy, Quddusi appointed Shukla to handle the case.
The FIR alleged that the promoters had filed a petition within the Allahabad High Court on August 25 that 12 months. In an interim reduction, the High Court ordered that “the petitioner college shall not be removed from the list of colleges notified for counseling till the next date of listing i.e. August 31, 2017”. It additionally stayed the encashment of financial institution assure of Rs 2 crore by the Medical Council of India until the following date of listening to.
It stated that on the morning of August 25, Quddusi and Yadav met Shukla at his Lucknow residence and “provided illegal gratification”.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
