High Court Judge Found Guilty In Bribery Scam

Chandigarh: A three member committee of high court judges have found justice Nirmal Yadav of Punjab and Haryana high court guilty of what’s being called cash at the door bribery scam. Justice Nirmal Yadav of Punjab and Haryana high court has been on leave since August last year after her name figured in the cash at door bribery scam in Chandigarh. However, she is not one to go down without a fight. In a defiant letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI), K G Balakrishnan, Justice Yadav has thrown muck at a supreme court judge and also leveled allegations of attempts to protect the real culprit. Justice Yadav has said that she is being made a scapegoat because her first name is similar to the judge whom cash was delivered. The entire enquiry has been deflected in one direction to protect Justice Kaur at the behest of the supreme court Judge Throwing more muck, justice Yadav further said that almost two decades old liaison between the judge of the supreme court and the judge at whose residence cash is delivered, has been the talk of town for all these years. It is on this ground that the Supreme court judge’s wife sought divorce. The Illicit relationship between the two reached scandalous proportions. This scam came to light in August last year when a sum of Rs 15 lakh was taken by the clerk of a senior Haryana law officer allegedly to the residence of a judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court Justice Nirmaljit Singh Kaur. Later, it turned out that the money was meant for another judge, Justice Nirmal Yadav of the same court last August, an enquiry was ordered. It’s rare that fingers are raised at a sitting judge of the Supreme court in a corruption case and even rare when these allegations are made by a judge of a high court. Now the difficult task for the CJI will be to control the damage that this letter has done to the institution of the supreme court of India.

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