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| Supreme Court nod for prosecution |
| Supreme Court nod for prosecution of Chautala brothers
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| INDIA
, 4-July-2011
3:39:29 AM |
| The Supreme Court today gave its nod for criminal prosecution of Indian National Lok Dal leaders Ajay and Abhay Chautala in a disproportionate assets case.
A division bench of V S Sirpurkar and T S Thakur dismissed their plea of quashing the criminal case against them on the ground that no sanction was taken from authorities before initiating proceedings against them.
The Bench said that there was no need to get sanction before their criminal prosecution and vacated the stay on the proceedings. Refusing to grant any relief to Chautalas, the Bench upheld the Delhi High Court order for their prosecution.
The Supreme Court had on October 22 last year stayed all further proceedings in the disproportionate assets case against Ajay and Abhay Chautala, sons of former Haryana Chief Minister and INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala.
The Chautalas had challenged a trial court order summoning them in the disproportionate assets case filed by the CBI. They had submitted that the CBI, which filed the chargesheet, has failed to obtain the mandatory sanction from the Government before launching the prosecution and alleged that the entire probe against them was politically motivated.
They claimed that prior sanction was necessary to prosecute the MLAs as provided under Section 197CrPC but the CBI had failed to obtain the same as the brothers were MLAs when the offence was allegedly committed. The Delhi High Court had earlier on July 8 dismissed
Chautalas' petition challenging the trial court's order.
The Chautala brothers, INLD MLA in Haryana, challenged the February 2 order of the trial court which had taken cognisance of charges against them in a disproportionate assets case.
The CBI had filed a chargesheet in December last year against the brothers in which it claimed that they had accumulated massive wealth which was disproportionate to their known sources of income.
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