Cuttack, June 19: In a major relief for director-general of the Central Reserve Police Force and former Orissa DGP Prakash Mishra, the Orissa high court Friday quashed an FIR that was registered against him by the state Vigilance directorate in a case of alleged graft.
Justice SC Parija passed the order, reserved by the HC April 27 this year, quashing the FIR thereby stopping criminal proceedings against the 1977-batch IPS officer.
The Vigilance wing of Orissa police had booked Mishra under Prevention of Corruption Act and Section 120-B of IPC, which acted against him in November.
Mishra had challenged the Vigilance move terming the FIR against him “suspect” and “suggestive of oblique motives” and urged the HC to quash the FIR and stop criminal proceedings against him as the same was an “outcome of malafide action and abuse of judicial process”.
The Vigilance directorate, however, was arguing that during Mishra’s tenure as chairman-cum-managing director of Orissa Police Housing and Welfare Corporation between 2006 and 2009, it was found that the accounts of the company were not properly maintained and hundred per cent advances were paid to material suppliers without proper authority. PTI
