This story is from December 7, 2019

CBI books sitting HC judge in UP medical college scam

PIMS, on the Lucknow-Kanpur Road, was one of the 46 colleges barred from admitting students due to substandard infrastructure and not conforming to teaching criteria in 2017. The FIR (registered on December 4) against Allahabad HC judge SN Shukla comes four months after the then chief justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi, gave the CBI sanction to book a serving HC judge.
CBI books sitting HC judge in UP medical college scam
Key Highlights
  • The FIR (registered on December 4) against Allahabad HC judge SN Shukla comes four months after the then chief justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi, gave the CBI sanction to book a serving HC judge.
  • Along with Justice Shukla, the agency filed a case against a retired Chhattisgarh high court judge for corruption and criminal conspiracy.
LUCKNOW: The CBI has registered a case against seven persons, including a sitting Allahabad HC judge, for allegedly taking a bribe to pass a favourable order to allow Prasad Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) to admit students.
PIMS, on the Lucknow-Kanpur Road, was one of the 46 colleges barred from admitting students due to substandard infrastructure and not conforming to teaching criteria in 2017.

The FIR (registered on December 4) against Allahabad HC judge SN Shukla comes four months after the then chief justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi, gave the CBI sanction to book a serving HC judge. Along with Justice Shukla, the agency filed a case against a retired Chhattisgarh high court judge for corruption and criminal conspiracy.
Justice Shukla’s prosecution is the first such case since the 1991 Supreme Court judgment allowing probes against judges. Justice Shukla is accused of favouring PIMS by extending the deadline for admission of students, a contravention of existing rules.
The CBI said it conducted multiple searches at the premises of all seven accused, including Justice Shukla, in Lucknow, Meerut and Delhi and recovered several “incriminating documents”.
The searches were carried out at the premises of Justice S N Shukla in Vridavan Yojna and I M Quddusi’s residence in Lawrence Terrace. Similar searches were carried out at the premises of PIMS member B P Yadav and his son, Palash Yadav, at Eldeco Greens, and at the residence of co-accused Subhash Giri in Meerut.

The searches, officials said, would continue in coming days.
The FIR has alleged that Yadav and his son, who have been managing the PIMS trust, held several meetings with conspirators. The agency had earlier arrested former Chhattisgarh HC judge I M Quddusi a day after it had registered the first FIR in September 2017.
The trial is likely to begin in January 2020. CBI sleuths have alleged that Justice Quddusi, along with a private person, had met Justice Shukla on August 25, 2017 at his residence in Lucknow and “delivered illegal gratification”.
“After the SC differed with the HC (on the case), B P Yadav pursued I M Quddusi to get back the illegal gratification paid to Justice Shukla. Quddusi contacted Justice Shukla for the return of the illegal gratification and a part of it was returned,” the FIR said.
The FIR also said a conspiracy was allegedly hatched among the accused to withdraw a writ petition before the SC.
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