Delhi High Court puts on hold adverse remarks against CBI in liquor policy case order

A bench of justice Swarana Kanta Sharma said that she would also pass an order directing the trial court to defer the money laundering case that stemmed from the CBI case and await the outcome of its appeal against the February 27 verdict.

On February 27, the trial court discharged the 23 accused, concluding that the CBI’s material did not even disclose a prima facie case, let alone a grave suspicion.

Special judge Jitendra Singh held that the excise policy case, as sought to be projected by CBI, did not survive judicial scrutiny, stood discredited in its entirety, and the alleged conspiracy was nothing more than a speculative construct resting on conjecture and surmises and lacked any admissible evidence. He directed a departmental inquiry against the “erring investigating officer” who framed charges against the accused in the absence of material evidence.