SrinagarThe J&K High Court on Tuesday closed a Public Interest Litigation after Central bureau of Investigation informed it that challan into multi-crore scam in Jammu and Kashmir cricket Association would be filed with a month.
The directions to closed the PIL was passed by a division bench of Justice Mohammad Yaqoob Mir and Justice Sanjeev Kumar after counsel for the Indias premier investigation agency said that investigation has been concluded and challan will be produced before the Court of law in one month.
The high court on 9 March 2015 had handed over the probe to CBI, observing that police investigation lacked both speed and credibility and that lack of will to dig out the scamsters was writ large on the face of its performance.
Having regard for the quantum and magnitude of the scam involving huge loss of public money and failure of (police) to conduct the investigation with speed, fairness and objectivity and given the inordinate delay in concluding the investigation coupled with lack of credibility the (police) and also taking into consideration the serious allegations made against the, beneficiaries involved including the influential and mighty, we are of the considered opinion that it is a fit case where the investigation must be handed over to CBI for purposes of a fair and result oriented investigation, the high court had said and order the courts registry judicial to send a copy of the judgment to the Director CBI for taking the investigation. It directed the CBI to bring ingestion to a logical conclusion, as expeditiously as possible
In its 17-page judgment, the court had given a detailed rationale for handing over the probe to CBI and not to the states crime branch as was suggested by advocate Mian Qayoom, counsel for the petitioners, the two crickets from the Valley Majid Yaqoob Dar and Nissar Ahmad Khan.
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