New Delhi Nov 26 PTI The CBI has receivedsanction to prosecute retired Allahabad High Court Judge Justice S N Shukla in a corruption case for allegedly favouring a private medical college in his orders officials said The CBI had applied for a go ahead from the high court to prosecute the retired judge on April 16 this year in accordance with the Prevention of Corruption Act they saidWith the high court now giving its nod the CBI can proceed with a chargesheet against the retired judgeBesides Justice Shukla of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court the agency had also named retired Chhattisgarh High Court judge I M Quddusi Bhagwan Prasad Yadav and Palash Yadav of the Prasad Education Trust the trust itself and private persons Bhavna Pandey and Sudhir Giri in the FIR they saidThe accused were booked under Section 120B of the IPC criminal conspiracy and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption ActIn order to to get a favourable order illegal gratification was allegedly paid to one of the accused named in the FIR by the trust the officials said After filing the FIR the CBI had conducted searches at multiple locations in Lucknow Meerut and Delhi they saidIt is alleged that the Prasad Institute of Medical Sciences was debarred by the Centre from admitting students due to substandard facilities and non-fulfilment of the required criteria in May 2017 along with 46 other medical colleges that were also debarred on similar grounds the officials saidThe decision to debar was challenged by the trust before the Supreme Court through a writ petition they addedSubsequently a conspiracy was hatched by those named in the FIR and the petition withdrawn with the courts permissionAnother writ petition was filed before the Lucknow bench of the high court on August 24 2017 the officials saidIt was further alleged in the FIR that the petition was heard on August 25 2017 by a division bench of the court comprising Justice Shukla and a favourable order was passed the same day they added PTI ABS MIN MIN

New Delhi Oct 23 PTI The Supreme Court has sought the Centres response on the bail plea of former Jharkhand minister Anosh Ekka who has been convicted and sentenced to seven years in jail in a money laundering caseA bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and J K Maheshwari issued notices to the Union of India and sought its response on the appeal filed by Ekka challenging the order of Jharkhand high courtIssue notice returnable on November 8 2021 The Respondent-State shall be served through the concerned standing counsel the bench said in its recent orderThe former Jharkhand minister has challenged the August 24 2020 order of the high court which denied him bail saying it will not be prudent and desirable to give protection under Section 389 seeking bail pending application for suspension of sentence of the Code of Criminal Procedure where the accused is convicted for offence punishable under the Prevention of Corruption ActIn view of the serious charges against the appellants and the nature of evidence in the record which this Court feels not proper to discuss in detail at this stage and as the appellants are not ready for hearing of these appeals though the same can be heard and disposed of finally as and when they get ready for the same this Court is not inclined to admit the appellants to bail or to suspend their sentences the high court had saidA special Prevention of Money Laundering Act PMLA court in Ranchi had sentenced the former Jharkhand minister to seven-year imprisonment and slapped him with a fine of Rs 2 crore in connection with a money laundering caseEkka was being probed by the Enforcement Directorate ED in connection with the PMLA case against former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and othersThe court convicted Anosh Ekka for being guilty of offences of money laundering to the tune of Rs 203177852 as defined under Section 3 of the PMLA and punishable under Section 4 of the PMLA the ED had said in a statement after his conviction PTI PKS MIN MIN