Chandigarh, Jan 25: Sudhir Parmar, an additional district and sessions-rank judge, was holding charge of special CBI and PMLA courts in Panchkula when he was booked by the Haryana anti-Corruption Bureau on April 17, 2023.
The high court, after examining the challan or the chargesheet prepared by the ACB, has made its recommendation to the state government.
The first information report was registered against the judicial officer, his nephew, Ajay Parmar and Roop Bansal, who is the director of real estate company M3M India Pvt Ltd by the ACB. High Court recommends Govt to grant sanction to prosecute Judicial Officer in corruption case
The ACB investigated the matter for about 18 months before deciding to seek sanction of the Haryana government to prosecute Parmar. The challan was then sent to the high court by the investigating agency for its recommendation on the matter.
Parmar was presiding over the trial of several CBI and ED cases involving real estate developers, retired bureaucrats and politicians. He was questioned by an ACB team on April 18, 2023, morning raid at his official residence in Panchkula.
He was placed under suspension by the high court chief justice on April 27, 2023, after an interlocutory application in the Supreme Court was filed by the HC seeking the permission of the apex court to transfer Parmar “in view of gravity and seriousness of the matter”.
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