Special Court acquits man in 37-year-old corruption case

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Surendra Singh Ahluwalia was acquitted in a 37-year-old corruption case by special judge Anil Antil on July 12, reported TOI. «Delay by any stakeholder or cog in the dispensation of the criminal justice system, be it by the investigating agency or by the unscrupulous devices adopted by the accused, not only causes miscarriage of justice, but the delay also becomes an instrument of inflicting a fatal blow on the efforts of justice dispensation,» said Justice Antil.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in 1987 filed an FIR against Ahluwalia, who was at the time the chief secretary of Nagaland and three others — V Bhaskaran, manager of Bank of Baroda, Coimbatore, Inderjit Singh, Ahluwalia’s brother and Bank of Baroda manager in Kohima, and Nyamo Lotha for fraud, destruction of evidence, corruption and other crimes.

Ahluwalia, who served in the Indian Army from 1964 to 1969, was accused of making Rs 67.9 lakh between July 1969 and March 1987 through illegal and corrupt practices.
Among the accused, Ahluwalia was declared unfit for trial given his mental state, Bhaskaran turned approver and received pardon in 1996, Inderjit was acquitted on July 12 this year and Nyamo Lotha died in 1991.

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The court observed that the prosecution had failed to prove its case. It said that the case was a “classic example” of justice becoming a casualty not only to protracted litigation but also to deliberate