Court raps CBI for failing to return seized %50,000

A special CBI court pulled up the agency for failing to return Rs50,000 seized from the applicant Peres Pezarkar during a 2014 corruption probe, with Special Judge VP Desai calling the nearly 10-year delay “unacceptable” and noting that “CBI has slept over the matter for almost ten years.

- Charul Shah Joshi

”Pezarkar, booked in 2014, had his home searched in September that year, when the agency seized the cash. He was exonerated in November 2015 due to insufficient evidence, and the court at the time directed the CBI to return all seized articles. The money, however, was never handed back.