NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday stated it can study the intense allegations of Enforcement Directorate and Chhattisgarh govt that Nagarik Apurti Nigam (NAN or PDS) rip-off accused ex-bureaucrats Anil Ok Tuteja and Alok Shukla allegedly influenced a HC choose for getting anticipatory bail.
A bench of Justices A S Oka and A G Masih repeatedly requested extra solicitor basic S V Raju for proof on two counts – whether or not the ex-bureaucrats have misused the bail granted to them to tamper with proof and for allegedly influencing the HC choose for getting pre-arrest bail within the rip-off.
Raju stated the proof was filed in a sealed cowl by the ED however the bench was unable to hint it. Raju provided to file it afresh. Senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, showing for Chhattisgarh govt, stated the state in its affidavits have annexed particulars of WhatsApp chats to indicate the nexus between the ex-bureaucrats, the then advocate basic of the state and the choose.
Showing for the accused, senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi stated Chhattisgarh govt has no position within the case because it was between the accused and the ED and questioned why it has filed the affidavit within the case.
Jethmalani stated the then AG of the state had participated within the perpetration of the fraud and facilitated grant of bail in subversion of established judicial course of. Rohatgi stated these affidavits are meaningless within the proceedings pending earlier than the courtroom because the ED is looking for shifting of the trial of the case exterior the state.
Whereas posting subsequent listening to within the case to Nov 8, the bench stated it should study the proof furnished by the ED and state govt on the alleged nexus between the accused, former AG and the choose.
“We are going to study it because the cost is in opposition to the judicial system,” the bench stated. Raju stated, “These sorts of termites shouldn’t be allowed to weaken the judicial system.”
