Supreme Court rejected anticipatory bail plea of Badri Shrestha, ex-consultant of Gomti River Front. The Supreme Court reprimanded the petitioner’s lawyer and said that this is an misuse of process, be prepared for a heavy fine and then argue
Badri Shrestha’s lawyer withdrew Badri’s anticipatory bail plea after Supreme Court reprimand. The accused Badri Shrestha challenged the decision of the Allahabad High Court in the Supreme Court.
The Allahabad High Court had held that in cases where government funds are embezzled with the connivance of politicians and officials, the accused are not entitled to anticipatory bail.
In fact, the report of the Gomti River Front scam was first lodged in 2017 at the Gomti Nagar police station.
It was transferred to CBI on 30 November 2017. It is alleged that work was done on behalf of Gulesh Chandra, SN Sharma, Kazim Ali, Shivmangal Yadav, Akhil Raman, Kamleshwar Singh, Roop Singh Yadav and Surendra Yadav under a conspiracy in the Gomti River Front Development Project.
Accused Badri Shrestha had taken advantage by conspiring with other accused. In the case of corruption and irregularities in the award of contracts for the beautification of Gomti Riverfront, the CBI has arrested the then Executive Engineer of Sharda Canal Lucknow Division and in-charge Superintending Engineer Roop Singh Yadav, the then Junior Assistant Rajkumar Yadav of Irrigation Works, Himanshu Gupta, Director of KK Spun, The charge sheet was filed against Badri Shrestha, Senior Advisor and Brand Eagles, Director Kavish Gupta.
By filing a charge sheet in the court, the CBI said that on the instructions of the UP government and the Government of India, the CBI had registered the case on November 30, 2017 and had discussed it. *The CBI had said in the court that a report was lodged in Gomtinagar regarding the same matter, in which it was alleged that the Irrigation Department had committed irregularities in the construction and beautification of the banks of the Gomtinagar riverfront.
The CBI had told the court that during investigation it was found that the accused had committed irregularities in bestowing the work of stopping the drains falling into Gomti and the accused had twice extended the date of tender to gift the said work to a private firm.
In the same tender process, to fulfill the obligation of at least three firms, forged documents of other firms were also made available by the accused.
It has been alleged in the charge sheet that the accused have contracted the work without allocation of funds and without approval. Whereas the bank guarantee of L2 firm was made from the bank account of L1.
