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CBI to reinvestigate graft case against HP official

| Sunday | 17th December, 2017

He had filed a discharge application, to which the CBI filed its reply and sought time to reinvestigate the matter. The CBI would reinvestigate the case to try Sharma and bring more facts to light. Chandigarh, December 16The CBI will reinvestigate the graft case against Joint Secretary, Himachal Pradesh Industries Department, Tilak Raj Sharma who has been accused of receiving Rs 5-lakh bribe. The government had denied permission to try Sharma. The CBI also said in case any officer was suspended, transferred or terminated from services, then no prosecution sanction was required to prosecute him.

Chandigarh, December 16 The CBI will reinvestigate the graft case against Joint Secretary, Himachal Pradesh Industries Department, Tilak Raj Sharma who has been accused of receiving Rs 5-lakh bribe. The government had denied permission to try Sharma. He had filed a discharge application, to which the CBI filed its reply and sought time to reinvestigate the matter. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for February 17, 2018. The CBI said now the matter was between the prosecution and the court, and the discharge plea was invalid. The CBI would reinvestigate the case to try Sharma and bring more facts to light. The CBI also said in case any officer was suspended, transferred or terminated from services, then no prosecution sanction was required to prosecute him. According to the defence counsel, Sharma did not have the power to allow any subsidy, nor was he a member of any such committee. Also, the bribe amount was not recovered from Sharma but the other accused. Sharma and his alleged accomplice Ashok Rana were arrested by the CBI on the complaint of a resident of Panchkula, Chandrashekhar. He had told the CBI that he was a consultant with a medical pharma company. His clients had filed for Rs 50-lakh subsidy in the Industries Department Office at Baddi. The accused had allegedly demanded Rs 10-lakh as bribe from him. — TNS

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