Summary:
(Representational Image)The Allahabad High Court has rejected a CBI officer’s plea to quash a preliminary enquiry (PE) initiated against him by the agency, and also fined him Rs 10,000. The agency had in January registered a preliminary enquiry against Khare after the CBI director gave the nod. The ground on which the registration of the preliminary enquiry has been challenged has “no substance and neither it is sustainable under the law”, it said. “The registration of the preliminary enquiry, therefore, is valid,” it said. The CBI, however, decided to go ahead with the preliminary enquiry..