Mumbai: Social activist Anjali Damiana has accused Maharashtra Minister Chhagan Bhujbal and his family members in connection with the alleged corruption in the construction of the new Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi. The order of a special court to discharge the charges was challenged in the Bombay High Court on Thursday. Anjali Damania has requested the High Court to quash the special court’s order discharging Bhujbal and others in the case and direct the court to expeditiously conclude the trial.
The special court had in September 2021 acquitted the senior Nationalist Congress Party leader and seven others, including his son Pankaj and nephew Sameer, in cases related to the state’s Anti-Corruption Bureau. The special court had said that there was no concrete evidence to show that the accused took illegal bribes from the developer appointed for the construction of the building.
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Damania filed a revised application in the High Court on Thursday challenging the trial court’s order. It claimed that the Prosecuting Agency (ACB) has not yet challenged the discharge order. Damania has alleged in his application that Bhujbal and other accused had hatched a criminal conspiracy to cause wrongful damage to the exchequer.
She has said in her application that she was among those who filed a public interest litigation in the High Court in 2014. He has said in the application that the high court had in 2015 directed the state’s Anti-Corruption Bureau to conduct a probe against Bhujbal and others.