SC transfers trial of graft case against retd judge to Delhi
New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- The Supreme Court has directed the trial of a disproportionate assets case against former Allahabad high court judge, justice (retd) Shri Narayan Shukla, to be transferred from Lucknow to a Delhi court hearing a corruption case against him.
The order was passed on October 14 by a bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and justice Joymalya Bagchi in a transfer petition filed by the former judge. Shukla retired in July 2020 after he was accused of taking a bribe to pass an order favouring Prasad Institute of Medical Sciences - a Lucknow-based medical college debarred in May 2017 from admitting students by the Medical Council of India (MCI).
A charge sheet was filed against Shukla by Central Bureau of Investigat...
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