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CASH FOR JUDGENow, Justice Nirmal Yadav’s PSO retracts his statementsTribune News ServiceChandigarh, July 20In a setback to the prosecution, a witness retracted from his statement in the cash-at-judge’s-door case involving a retired Punjab and Haryana High Court Judge, Justice Nirmal Yadav, during resumed hearing in a special CBI court here today. In a statement recorded before the CBI in September 2008, Udaibir Singh, a former personal security officer (PSO) of Justice Nirmal Yadav, had stated that he knew Ravinder Singh (businessman). When he was confronted with this statement by Special CBI Prosecutor Anupam Gupta today, the PSO stated that he never made such statement. It was stated that Justice Nirmal Yadav had gone to see a piece of land she intended to purchase there. When the special CBI prosecutor questioned him about his visits to Solan, he retracted from the statement..