Delhi HC : sends 3 CBI officials to agency custody in corruption case
Court says the situation “shakes the edifice of the machinery” whose primary duty is to bring wrongdoers to justice
The Delhi High Court has remanded three CBI officials to the custody of their own agency in a corruption case, observing that the situation “shakes the edifice of the machinery” whose primary duty is to bring wrongdoers to justice.
Justice Neena Bansal Krishna, in an April 25 order, said, “It is one of the unique cases of rampant corruption in CBI, ED and such other departments, which shakes the entire edifice of our executive and the investigating machinery which have the primary duty of investigations in crime and bring the culprits to face the penalty corruption”.
The court noted that the complainant has pointed out that this is not an isolated incident of corruption by a government official. Instead, it points to a larger conspiracy involving officials across multiple departments, “who have in a nexus and take bribes for giving undue advantage to the approaching party or even to impact and interfere in the fair investigations and the functioning of these government departments”.
