Former Punjab and Haryana High Court judge, Justice Nirmal Yadav, has been acquitted in a 17-year-old corruption case today. CBI court in Chandigarh on Saturday acquitted retired Justice Yadav and three other accused, Ravinder Singh Bhasin, Rajiv Gupta and Nirmal Singh, in the 2008 cash-at-judge’s door case. It is to be noted that Sanjeev Bansal, died during the trial of the case.
Justice Alka Malik, of the Special CBI court, pronounced the order. Advocate Vishal, representing retired Justice Nirmal Yadav, said, A false narrative was set that money was sent as a bribe, but there was nothing like that and the Court acquitted everyone today.
The case came to light in August 2008 when a packet containing Rs 15 Lakh cash was delivered at the residence of Justice Nirmaljit Kaur, but it was alleged that the cash was actually meant to be delivered at the residence of Justice Nirmal Yadav, a sitting judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court at that time.
As a person came to drop Rs 15 Lakh cash at Justice Nirmaljit Kaur on August 13, 2008, the person was apprehended and police were called in who registered an FIR into the matter. It was found that the money was sent by Sanjeev Bansal, former Additional Advocate General of Haryana, through his peon Parkash Ram.
As soon as Parkash Ram reached the house of then Punjab and Haryana High Court Judge Justice Nirmaljit Kaur, he said that there were documents in the packet that had come from Delhi. When the peon opened the packet on the insistence of Justice Nirmaljit Kaur, currency notes were found inside it. He was detained by the police.