Allahabad, Nov 16: The Allahabad High Court has directed the Union Finance Ministry to order a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the multi-crore judicial paper scam involving several states. A division bench comprising Justice S K Agarwal and Justice K N Sinha passed the order on a bail application filed by an accused arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police authorities for his alleged involvement in the scam.
Taking a serious view of the biggest ever fake judicial paper scam in the country, the court observed that a scam of this nature was aimed at ruining the economy and directed the union finance ministry to get the matter thoroughly probed by the CBI after obtaining reports in this regard from all the states where this scam had taken place.
The court also directed the ministry to initiate prosecution of the people involved in the fake judicial paper "racket".
The court, in its order last week, also directed the CBI to register the case in the matter from the date of the receipt of a copy of this order by the Union Finance Ministry.
The scam to the tune of several thousand crore Rupees had been unearthed in Maharashtra, Karnataka and several other states earlier this year.
Bureau Report