On justice Nirmal Yadav’s acquittal: We had full faith in judiciary, says ex-Haryana minister Ajay Yadav

“In a 17-year-old case, my elder sister, Justice Nirmal Yadav, was acquitted by a special CBI court today. We had full faith in the judiciary,” Ajay Singh Yadav said in a post in Hindi on X.

“My sister rose from a sessions judge to the high court and had this false case not been pursued, she would have become a Supreme Court judge too, but she could not get the promotion and was deprived of her rights,” he added.

Born in a political family of Haryana, Justice Yadav got embroiled in the alleged bribery controversy in August 2008. It was merely three years after her elevation as a judge that the controversy surrounding her hit national headlines, this being the first such case where a sitting judge was booked in a corruption case.