Jaipur : Heritage Nagar Nigam Mayor Munesh Gurjar has filed a legal petition within the High Court difficult the FIR lodged by the ACB on August 6 final yr within the case of issuing leases after taking bribe. A single bench of Justice Sameer Jain will hear the petition on Saturday. The petition has pleaded that the state authorities and the complainant of the case Sudhanshu Singh be made events and that this FIR of the ACB be cancelled.
Advocate Deepak Chauhan stated within the petition that on this case the ACB has did not show any demand from the petitioner. The ACB has not defined how the petitioner made the demand from the complainant and the way the ACB verified it. Apart from this, no restoration has been produced from the petitioner.
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At the identical time, there isn’t any proof relating to the function of the petitioner within the FIR registered within the case. In such a scenario, the ACB FIR doesn’t confirm the required circumstances of demand and restoration underneath the Anti-Corruption Act. No proof was discovered towards him on this regard earlier, if there was proof, motion would have been taken towards him at the moment itself.
The petitioner has been falsely implicated on this case and the FIR has been lodged with malice. It is price noting that the ACB had arrested Munesh Gurjar’s husband Sushil Gurjar in a case associated to demanding bribe in change for issuing a lease from the Municipal Corporation. After this, the state authorities suspended Munesh.
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The High Court had stayed this suspension. Later, the federal government withdrew the suspension order. The state authorities had re-suspended Munesh after the investigation, however the High Court revoked the suspension in December 2023. Recently, after getting prosecution approval, the ACB has filed a chargesheet within the ACB court docket towards Munesh and her husband Sushil and two others.
