Chandigarh, Nov. 11 -- The Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Chandigarh has taken note of 332 missing pages in the documentary record accompanying the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) complaint against its former assistant director Vishal Deep and others in the alleged Rs.2.5 crore bribery case linked to the Rs.181 crore Himachal Pradesh scholarship scam.

In an order dated November 10, special judge Bhawna Jain recorded that pages 3,425 to 3,756 of a document marked as relied upon were missing from the certified copies submitted by the prosecution. The court's record official (Ahlmad) flagged the discrepancy, which was also confirmed by the ED's special public prosecutor.

The court consequently proceeded on the as...