Chandigarh, Oct. 28 -- Eight months after the Punjab and Haryana high court quashed criminal prosecution initiated by the Haryana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) against four Haryana civil service (HCS) officers and one Haryana police service (HPS) officer regarding their appointments, a Hisar court has formally absolved these officers.

An application for quashing proceedings against HCS officers Jaiveer Yadav, Ved Parkash, Inderjeet, Sanjeev Kumar, and HPS officer Ashok Kumar was filed before the trial court in Hisar on the grounds that the high court in its January 29, 2025, order had quashed the FIR along with the July 5, 2023, chargesheet submitted by the ACB against these officers.

The trial court of Hisar additional sessions judge, K...