Jaffer Sharief charged with graft
4 July 2012 1:44 AM GMT
Former Union Minister C K Jaffer Sharief has been charged by a city court for causing loss to the public exchequer in a 1995 corruption case in which he had undertaken a foreign jaunt.
The commencement of trial has been fixed for 21 August. Sharief has also been charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act. He has pleaded innocence and has claimed trial in the case along with four others.
He is accused of dishonestly ensuring journey of his erstwhile Additional Private Secretary B N Nagesh, stenos S M Masthan and V Muralidharn, and driver C H Samaullah to London with him.
Sharief, in 1995, as an Union minister had gone to London for his treatment and had allegedly taken four of his official staffers on the trip unauthorisedly, causing a loss of Rs 7 lakh to the state exchequer. The CBI had filed the closure report in the case for want of official sanction to prosecute him, but the trial court had proceeded against him.
An FIR was registered against Sharief in 1998 by the CBI, however, in 2005, the agency filed a closure report citing refusal of sanction. The lower court, however, had rejected the closure report saying it appeared that the entire material collected by the prosecution had not been placed before sanctioning authority.
The CBI again filed a closure report. The special judge, however, declined the CBI request and took cognisance of the offence under P C Act.
Earlier the Supreme Court had refused to stay the framing of charges against him.
The commencement of trial has been fixed for 21 August. Sharief has also been charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act. He has pleaded innocence and has claimed trial in the case along with four others.
He is accused of dishonestly ensuring journey of his erstwhile Additional Private Secretary B N Nagesh, stenos S M Masthan and V Muralidharn, and driver C H Samaullah to London with him.
Sharief, in 1995, as an Union minister had gone to London for his treatment and had allegedly taken four of his official staffers on the trip unauthorisedly, causing a loss of Rs 7 lakh to the state exchequer. The CBI had filed the closure report in the case for want of official sanction to prosecute him, but the trial court had proceeded against him.
An FIR was registered against Sharief in 1998 by the CBI, however, in 2005, the agency filed a closure report citing refusal of sanction. The lower court, however, had rejected the closure report saying it appeared that the entire material collected by the prosecution had not been placed before sanctioning authority.
The CBI again filed a closure report. The special judge, however, declined the CBI request and took cognisance of the offence under P C Act.
Earlier the Supreme Court had refused to stay the framing of charges against him.
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