Notice To Former Odisha Judge On CBI’s Plea

Notice to former Odisha judge on CBI’s plea, orders given in a corruption case.

The Delhi High Court has sought a response from former Odisha Justice IM Quddusi on a plea by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a corruption case.

A bench of Justice Mukta Gupta adjourned the hearing till September 29. The CBI has challenged the order of the trial court passed in April.

Under the notice issued under Section-91 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the investigating agency had sought information from Quddusi about his bank accounts, employees, etc.

The CBI had issued notices to Quddusi and six others alleging corruption against the accused.

The CBI has claimed that Quddusi, along with several high-level functionaries, tried to influence the verdict in a case heard by the Supreme Court.

The probe agency alleged that co-accused BP Yadav had approached the SC and the Allahabad HC after his Prasad Institute of Medical Sciences College was denied admission to students for the years 2017-18 and 2018-19.

Supreme Court expressed displeasure over the delayed appeal of government officials.

The Supreme Court has expressed displeasure over the late arrival of the court by government officials, regardless of the deadline.

The top court said, if the government feels that this time limit is extremely insufficient, it can approach the legislature for an extension of the time limit for filing appeals.

In fact, the Central Government had filed a petition in the Supreme Court with a delay of 1,356 days against the July 2017 order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

On this, a bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Hrishikesh Rai dismissed the petition as time-bound and also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000.

The bench said that they have classified such cases as certificate cases which are brought to the apex court only after obtaining the certificate of rejection so that the guilty officers can be saved.

Watermarks make the orders of the Tribunal unreadable.

The Supreme Court on Friday said watermarks on orders of tribunals make them unreadable.

Hearing an appeal against an NGT order, a bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and MR Shah said the e-committee of the apex court will approach tribunals to ensure that such logos are not used on orders.