Mystery of Rs 15L remains unsolved in cash-at-judge’s door case

Despite the fact that a CBI court docket in Chandigarh has acquitted all accused, together with Justice (retd ) Nirmal Yadav within the cash-at-judge’s door case, however the thriller concerning the Rs 15 lakh seized by the CBI in the course of the investigation 17 years in the past stays unsolved.

The CBI had registered the case after Parkash Ram, a clerk of Sanjiv Bansal ,then Further Advocate-Basic, Haryana, had arrived on the residence of a then sitting Decide of Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom Justice Nirmaljit Kaur on August 13, 2008, with a plastic bag in his hand. When the bag was opened it was discovered containing foreign money notes. On the course of Justice Nirmaljit Kaur the police have been referred to as and a Sub-Inspector of the Chandigarh Police took Prakash Ram into custody, together with the bag introduced by him.

The Station Home Officer of Sector 11 police station, Ramesh Chand Sharma, seized the bag and counted the notes, which totalled Rs 15 lakh. After registering the case on August 16, 2008, by the Chandigarh Police, the Chandigarh Administration handed over the investigation to the CBI on August 26, 2008. Together with all paperwork, the cash was additionally handed over by the Chandigarh Police to the CBI and the money continues to be mendacity within the malkhana of the CBI.

Upon completion of the investigation, the CBI claimed within the charge-sheet that the bag was meant for Justice Yadav, however because of the similarity within the names of the 2 judges, it was mistakenly delivered at Justice Kaur’s residence. The CBI within the charge-sheet had alleged that accused Ravinder Singh gave the cash to Sanjiv Bansal to be delivered to Justice Nirmal Yadav for giving a beneficial judgment in a property matter.

Nonetheless, all accused claimed that the CBI had falsely implicated them within the case. Hitesh Puri, one of many defence counsel, stated that the charge-sheet was filed on the premise of fabricated proof and the CBI court docket had additionally rapped the CBI for fabricating the proof towards the accused. Puri stated that from the primary day of the trial they’d been saying that the case was false.

The CBI had neither named Parkash Ram as witness, nor accused within the case, who had wrongly delivered Rs 15 lakh to Justice Nirmaljit Kaur. Puri stated that it was solely the CBI which knew to whom the quantity belonged to because the court docket had discovered no hyperlink with the individuals named within the charge-sheet filed within the case.