CHANDIGARH, April 3 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) came under severe judicial criticism for its handling of the 2008 bribery case against former Punjab and Haryana high court judge Nirmal Yadav, with a special court lambasting the agency for "fabricating evidence" instead of adhering to its initial stance of closing the case.
In her detailed 89-page judgment released on Wednesday, special judge Alka Malik categorically said CBI should have filed a closure report instead of manufacturing evidence through a key prosecution witness, RK Jain. The court held that Jain's testimony was completely unreliable, built on "improvements, assumptions, presumptions, hypotheses and falsehoods".
"It would have been highly appreciable on the ...