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| MGNREGA funds scam worth crores surfaces in RDD | | Court rejects bail of seven including ADC & Ors | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 21: Special Judge Anticorruption Jammu Sonia Gupta today rejected the pre-arrest bail application of seven involved in much publicized MGNREGA Funds Scam of RDD.
While rejecting anticipatory bail applications of seven, Special Judge Anticorruption Jammu Sonia Gupta after hearing CPO Rajesh Bakshi for the Vigilance whereas Adv Waheed Choudhary for the applicants, observed that anticipatory bail is an extra ordinary privilege and can be granted only in exceptional citcumstances where court has prima-facie view that the applicant has been falsely implicated in the crime. The grant of bail depends upon nature of offence and the manner in which it is committed and its impact on society at large and it further depends on the reasonable possibility of applicants' presence being secured during investigation and trial, Court added.
With these observations Court rejected the bail application.
According to the Vigilance Case that on March 27, 2018 Vigilance J&K, conducted simultaneous raids in the house/ office premises of five officers and seized relevant records pertaining to some purchases made during the year 2015, 2016 and 2017 for the department, personal laptops/ computers besides details/ documents related to properties/ FDRs etc and finally registered an FIR No. 8/ 2018 against two Directors, four District Panchayat Officers of Rural Development Department and one General Manager of NCCF. A private agency M/s Hashmie Enterprises, of a blue eyed person of the top people in RDD, operating from Bathindi in Jammu was also booked for this multi-crore scandal. |
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