Jaipur: Rajasthan High Court has postponed the listening to on the petition of Heritage Municipal Corporation Mayor Munesh Gurjar within the case associated to issuing lease after taking bribe for 2 weeks. Justice Sameer Jain gave this order on the petition of Munesh Gurjar. During the listening to, advocate Deepak Chauhan on behalf of petitioner Munesh Gurjar advised the court docket that the cost sheet has been introduced within the case. In such a scenario, it’s essential to take it on document, so the listening to of the case ought to be postponed. On this, the court docket has determined to listen to the case after two weeks.
It has been mentioned within the petition that on this case ACB has didn’t 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 constituted of the petitioner. At the identical time, there isn’t a proof relating to 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 underneath the Anti-Corruption Act. In this regard, no proof was discovered towards him earlier, if there was proof, motion would have been taken towards him at the moment itself.
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The petitioner has been wrongly implicated on this case and the FIR has been lodged out of malice, therefore the FIR ought to be quashed. It is price noting that on August 6 final 12 months, the ACB had registered an FIR and arrested Munesh Gurjar’s husband Sushil Gurjar and two others in a case associated to demanding bribe in lieu of getting a lease issued 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. At the identical time, after getting prosecution approval, the ACB has introduced a cost sheet within the ACB court docket towards Munesh and her husband Sushil and two others.
