CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana HC has made it clear that CBI can not insist that the state govt deputes a selected officer for serving to it in an investigation.
“The discretion to determine which officer is to be despatched to help CBI lies throughout the unique area of the state,” a division bench comprising Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Jagmohan Bansal mentioned whereas listening to an software filed by the central probe company.
Citing acute scarcity of manpower, CBI, which is probing the ‘ghost college students’ rip-off in Haryana – associated to siphoning of funds by itemizing over 4 lakh non-existent college students in varied govt faculties – has sought instructions to be supplied cops on deputation for the case.
CBI recognized DSP Vijay Nehra, inspector Vijay, SIs Naresh Kumar, Naresh, Neeraj, Kuldeep and Rambir, posted at totally different locations, to be deputed for serving to it with the investigations. It has additionally demanded 10 constables to help the probe officers.
After listening to CBI’s plea, the bench requested the company’s counsel to provide copies of the applying to the Haryana govt counsel, who was directed to reply on July 22, the subsequent date of listening to.
CBI had taken up the investigation following HC instructions in 2019. The faux admissions in state-run faculties got here up earlier than the HC in Could 2016 in the course of the listening to of a case pertaining to surplus academics within the state. It emerged that as towards an enrolment of twenty-two lakh college students in govt faculties, solely 18 lakh college students have been really finding out. The extra 4 lakh admissions have been proven allegedly to get funds below varied schemes.
“The discretion to determine which officer is to be despatched to help CBI lies throughout the unique area of the state,” a division bench comprising Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Jagmohan Bansal mentioned whereas listening to an software filed by the central probe company.
Citing acute scarcity of manpower, CBI, which is probing the ‘ghost college students’ rip-off in Haryana – associated to siphoning of funds by itemizing over 4 lakh non-existent college students in varied govt faculties – has sought instructions to be supplied cops on deputation for the case.
CBI recognized DSP Vijay Nehra, inspector Vijay, SIs Naresh Kumar, Naresh, Neeraj, Kuldeep and Rambir, posted at totally different locations, to be deputed for serving to it with the investigations. It has additionally demanded 10 constables to help the probe officers.
After listening to CBI’s plea, the bench requested the company’s counsel to provide copies of the applying to the Haryana govt counsel, who was directed to reply on July 22, the subsequent date of listening to.
CBI had taken up the investigation following HC instructions in 2019. The faux admissions in state-run faculties got here up earlier than the HC in Could 2016 in the course of the listening to of a case pertaining to surplus academics within the state. It emerged that as towards an enrolment of twenty-two lakh college students in govt faculties, solely 18 lakh college students have been really finding out. The extra 4 lakh admissions have been proven allegedly to get funds below varied schemes.
