CBI files chargesheet against Justice Nirmal Yadav in cash-at-judge's door case

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today filed a chargesheet against Justice Nirmal Yadav, a judge of the Uttarakhand High Court, on the day of her retirement in what is known as the "cash-at-judge's door" case.

Justice Yadav had been transferred out of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in November 2009, more than a year after the case hit the national headlines.

The CBI chargesheet was filed against the judge and four others in the court of Special Judge, Chandigarh, in the case relating to the delivery of Rs 15 lakhs at the doorstep of another judge of the Punjab and Haryana Court in August 2008.

A CBI press release said the chargesheet had been filed after receipt of sanction for prosecution under section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act from the Ministry of Law and Justice.

The others named in the chargesheet are Mr Sanjeev Bansal, former advocate general of Haryana, Delhi-based businessman Ravinder Singh, property dealer Rajiv Gupta and realtor Nirmal Singh.

Singh had allegedly asked Bansal to expedite the delivery of the Rs 15 lakh to Justice Yadav on August 13, 2008 for a plot of land in Himachal Pradesh. Bansal, who was on his way to Chandigarh from Delhi, in turn, asked his wife to get the amount delivered. The person who carried the money delivered it to a peon at the residence of Justice Nirmaljit Kaur, confused by the similarity in the names of the two judges.

NNN