NEW DELHI, Feb 22: The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a case against the retired Allahabad High Court judge SN Shukla and his wife for allegedly amassing assets worth over ₹ 2.45 crores disproportionate to his known source of income during his tenure as judge of the High Court between 2014-19.
This is the second corruption case against the former judge.
The CBI had registered a corruption case on December 4, 2019, against Shukla, then a sitting Allahabad High Court judge, along with IM Quddusi, retired Chhattisgarh High Court judge and four others for giving a favourable order to a Lucknow-based medical college in lieu of money.
As the Supreme Court’s in-house probe revealed gross misconduct on the part of Justice SN Shukla, then Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra had recommended for his impeachment in 2018 but he wasn’t impeached even though Justice Misra’s successor Justice Ranjan Gogoi had also followed it up with the central government.
Justice SN Shukla duly retired in July, 2020.
(Manas Dasgupta)
