A case has been filed against SN Shukla, a former Allahabad High Court judge who served from 2014 to 2019, and his wife, alleging that they amassed assets worth 2.45 crore rupees that were not related to their known source of income.
According to ANI, the CBI “registered a case against Justice SN Shukla, Retd Judge of the Allahabad High Court, and his wife Suchita Tiwari for allegedly amassing assets worth Rs 2.45 crore disproportionate to his known source of income” between 2014 and 2019.
After booking Shukla, a judge on the High Court’s Lucknow bench, and others under the Prevention of Corruption Act and Section 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code, the CBI conducted searches in December 2019.
According to the officials, the agency claims to have discovered property documents and other assets during their investigation.
The CBI claims Shukla accumulated assets worth more than Rs 2.54 crore in the names of family members between 2014 and 2019, but no one can explain where the money came from.
The former judge “intentionally enriched himself illicitly and acquired assets by corrupt and illegal means in the name of Suchita Tiwari, with whom he is residing,” according to the CBI First Information Report. According to the government organisation, the former judge “intentionally enriched himself illicitly.”
Tiwari is identified as Justice Shukla’s “second wife” in the agency’s FIR.
According to the FIR, “the above facts prima facie disclose that S N Shukla has acquired assets in the names of Suchita Tiwari and Saideen Tiwari (brother of first wife) to the tune of Rs.2.54 crore (165 per cent above his known sources of income) between April 01, 2014 and December 06, 2019.”
Shukla began working at the Allahabad High Court on October 5, 2005, and plans to retire on July 17, 2020, according to the court’s website.
The premier investigating agency accused then-serving Allahabad High Court judge SN Shukla, retired Chhattisgarh High Court judge IM Quddusi, and four others of accepting bribes to secure a favourable order for a Lucknow-based medical college in a corruption case filed on December 4, 2019.
After the Supreme Court’s internal investigation found evidence of Justice SN Shukla’s gross misconduct in 2018, then-Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra recommended that he be impeached. Nonetheless, Justice Ranjan Gogoi’s subsequent consultations with the federal government did not result in his impeachment.
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