Court acquits 3, calls for action against CBI officials

The court let off accused K K Sood, who retired from SSC in 2007, and two others, Sanjay Rana and Joginder Singh Dahiya of the charges of cheating, forgery and corruption as the CBI failed to produce evidence to prove its allegations against them.

"A copy of this judgement be sent to the Director, CBI, for his consideration and taking appropriate disciplinary action against the erring CBI officials particularly Inspector Virender Thakran," Special CBI Judge Dharmesh Sharma said.

According to the CBI, Sood, who was section officer of the confidential section-III of SSC, had conspired with Rana and Dahiya for favouring some candidates appearing in the clerks' grade examination conducted by the SSC in 1998.

It had alleged the accused had increased the marks of some candidates and their answer sheets were tampered by them.

The CBI had claimed that Rana and Dahiya were running a coaching institute here and had taken Rs 50,000 from one of the students, assuring him that he would pass the written test of the SSC's clerks' grade examination held in October 1998.

The court acquitted the three accused and pulled up the CBI officials for their "unfair" investigation in the case.

"The whole manner in which the investigation was done shows that Inspector Virender Thakran had taken the law into his own hand, threw all legal norms to the wind and acted in the most diabolic, unfair and criminal manner in falsely implicating the accused persons in this case," it said.

"It is needless to state that SP Anil Kumar failed in his duties to supervise the investigation by PW 27 (Thakran) and others who followed the suit," the judge said. (More)