New Delhi, Jan 5: A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court Friday disposed of the case involving a ‘raid by mistake’ on the official residence of an Orissa High Court judge in favour of the Central Bureau of Investigation. The bench quashed the FIR filed against the central agency for alleged trespassing.
A CBI team had ‘by mistake’ reached the gates of the official residence of a sitting judge of the Orissa High Court, Justice CR Dash, prepared for a raid in connection with a medical college bribery case involving former high court judge IM Quddusi. Later, the Orissa High Court Bar Association filed a writ petition seeking judicial inquiry of the said incident. The case was transferred to the Supreme Court based on a petition filed by the investigating agency. The matter came up for final hearing before justices AK Sikri and Ashok Bhushan, who also ordered that the writ petition filed before the Orissa High Court by the Orissa HC Bar Association be quashed. The apex court had earlier asked the CBI to ascertain whether their apologies were accepted by the persons concerned in the incident. The SC Friday asked the parties involved to end the matter as the CBI had tendered apologies. “We told the Supreme Court that the CBI had indeed approached Orissa High Court and people related to the case and sought their apologies. The court asked not to stretch the case further, which we accepted,” Advocate Sibo Sankar Mishra, counsel for the Orissa High Court told Orissa POST. This was the seventh hearing of the case.
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