CBI files closure report in corruption case against Maneka Gandhi

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Maneka Gandhi (file picture)/Photo: PIB

Above: Maneka Gandhi (file picture)/Photo: PIB

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday (December 14) submitted the closure report to Special Judge Sunil Rana seeking an end of a corruption case against Union Minister Maneka Gandhi and two others for sanctioning Rs 50 lakh grant to a trust allegedly in a dubious manner.

On the previous hearing, the Special Judge had allowed the time to file a closure report to CBI.

The Court posted the matter for next hearing to January 18, 2018.

V M Singh, a complainant had filed a protest petition against CBI for seeking closure of the case against Gandhi and two others.

In 2006, the CBI had registered a FIR against Gandhi along with Dr Vijay Sharma, former Managing Trustee of Gandhi Rural Welfare Trust (GRWT) and Dr F U Siddiqui, former secretary of Maulana Azad Education Foundation (MAEF).

In the FIR, the probe agency had alleged Gandhi, in cohorts with Siddiqui, had sanctioned a funding of Rs 50 lakh to GRWT from MAEF in an abnormal manner to build a nursing college building at Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh thereby leveraging undue favour to Sharma.

—India Legal Bureau