Sehgal discharged

AMBALA, June 1: Additional Sessions Judge R.C. Bansal has discharged Ramesh Sehgal, Director General (Prisons), Haryana, who was arrested in...

AMBALA, June 1: Additional Sessions Judge R.C. Bansal has discharged Ramesh Sehgal, Director General (Prisons), Haryana, who was arrested in a corruption case after being allegedly caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000.

The court gave its ruling on an application filed by Sehgal in which he had pleaded that in the reply filed by the state government before the Central Administrative Tribunal, Chandigarh, it was pleaded that no sanction had been received for prosecution of the accused from the Central government.However, the state government had submitted that the "case was still under investigation and the matter had been taken up with the Central government for obtaining sanction at the earliest". The judge, however, ruled that the state (prosecution) was at liberty to prosecute him after obtaining proper sanction.

According to the prosecution, Sehgal was arrested on the allegation of accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 from Surinder Singh for extending the period of parole to Gurdip Singh, involved in a murder case, on December 11, 1996.Sehgal was admitted to PGI after he complained of heart trouble till he was granted bail on January 12, 1997.

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Since Sehgal belongs to the IPS, the state government had sought permission from the Central government (Home Ministry) for his prosecution, which was understood to have sought clarification on several points, including serial numbers of the currency notes recovered from Sehgal, how the recovery was made from the police station instead of Sehgal’s house during the raid, and why Surinder Singh, who was a proclaimed offender, was not arrested when he approached the police authorities with money to be given as bribe.

The Central government is learnt to have not granted permission to the state government, which filed a review petition which was rejected by the Home Ministry vide its letter dated May 26, 1998.

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