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CBI closure report in Jaffar Sharief case
The CBI has filed a closure report in a decade-old alleged misuse of office case against former Railway Minister C K Jaffer Sharief, after the Centre refused permission to prosecute him.
New Delhi | April 5, 2006 12:00 AM IST
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The CBI has filed a closure report in a decade-old alleged misuse of office case against former Railway Minister C K Jaffer Sharief, after the Centre refused permission to prosecute him.
The CBI sought permission to close the case in the court of Special Judge I K Kochchar in the case dating back to 1995, when Sharief was Union Railway Minister in the Narasimha Rao government. CBI claims Sharief misused his position to send four government employees on private trips abroad.
Investigations by CBI showed Sharief had caused the government losses of over Rs 7.5 lakh by arranging for the london trips of B N Nagesh, then his Additional Personal Secretary, V Muralidharan and S M Mastan, both Railway Ministry stenographers, and a ministry driver to accompany him for personal work.
Sharief was then a heart patient and was given permission to be accompanied by medical staff in his stay abroad, but the CBI had alleged that he had fraudulently made MDs of RITES and IRCON approve the names of the ministry employees on the trip.
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