Jaipur: Heritage Nagar Nigam Mayor Munesh Gurjar has challenged the FIR lodged by ACB on sixth August final yr within the case of issuing leases after taking bribe by submitting a legal petition within the High Court. The petition has pleaded that the ACB FIR be cancelled by making the state authorities and the complainant of the case Sudhanshu Singh as events. The court docket will hear the case within the coming days.
These arguments given within the petition: In the petition, advocate Deepak Chauhan mentioned that on this case ACB has did not show any demand from the petitioner. ACB has not advised how the petitioner made the demand from the complainant and the way ACB verified it? Apart from this, no restoration has been constructed from the petitioner. At the identical time, there is no such thing as a proof concerning the position of the petitioner within the FIR registered within the case. In such a scenario, the FIR of ACB doesn’t confirm the required situations of demand and restoration beneath the Anti-Corruption Act. In this regard, no proof was discovered in opposition to him earlier additionally, if there was proof, motion would have been taken in opposition to him at the moment itself.
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Only the husband needs to be accused: It has been advised within the petition filed that the petitioner has been wrongly implicated on this case. The petitioner has no direct or oblique reference to the case. This FIR has been lodged in opposition to him resulting from malice. The complainant has solely accused her husband and the complainant has not mentioned wherever that he met him and the petitioner had made any type of demand from him. In such a scenario, the ACB has implicated the petitioner with none cause, so this FIR needs to be canceled. It is price noting that the ACB had arrested Munesh Gurjar’s husband Sushil Gurjar in a case associated to demanding bribe in lieu of issuing a lease from the Municipal Corporation. After this, the state authorities suspended Munesh. The High Court had stayed this suspension. At the identical time, later the federal government withdrew the suspension order. The state authorities had re-suspended Munesh after investigation, however the High Court canceled the suspension in December 2023.
