CBI Fabricated Proof To Frame Ex-Judge: Court

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) came under severe judicial criticism for its handling of the 2008 bribery case against former Punjab and Haryana high court judge Nirmal Yadav, with a special court lambasting the agency for "fabricating evidence" instead of adhering to its initial stance of closing the case.

- Aneesha Sareen Kumar

In her detailed 89-page judgment released on Wednesday, spe cial judge Alka Malik categorically said CBI should have filed a closure report instead of manufacturing evidence through a key prosecution witness, RK Jain. The court held that Jain's testimony was completely unreliable, built on "improvements, assumptions, presumptions, hypotheses and falsehoods".

"It would have been highly appreciable on the part of a premier investigating agency of the stature of the Central Bureau of Investigation to stick to its very first stance of filing the closure report in the matter in the court of competent jurisdiction, rather than fabricating a highly unworthy of trust evidence in the form of RK Jain," held the judgment, marking a major embarrassment for CBI and raising serious concerns over the agency's conduct in high-profile probes.