SC sets aside Andhra HC order, revives graft cases

CALLS RULING ‘TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE’

- Abraham Thomas

The Supreme Court on Thursday revived several corruption cases in Andhra Pradesh, setting aside an “overly technical” Andhra Pradesh high court ruling that had terminated the proceedings, terming such an approach to be “nothing but a travesty of justice”.

A bench of justices MM Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma said, “We are dealing with a set of cases where, the FIRs registered, for offences punishable under the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act, have been quashed, which left the investigation(s) being nipped in the bud in some cases, while, in the others, criminal proceedings stood terminated. In our considered view, the approach of the high court is nothing but a travesty of justice.”