CASH AT JUDGE’S DOOR:Senior Bar member says one of the judges made a ‘sustained, conscious and wilful’ effort to influence investigation, claims Bansal was in touch with the other judge’s son

Adding new dimensions to the cash-at-judge’s-door case, Advocate Anupam Gupta, who is also the senior standing counsel for the UT Administration, made certain startling revelations at the General House of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association on Tuesday.  

Gupta, who is known for being vocal on various issues, claimed that there were two judges — one a Supreme Court judge and the other a senior HC judge — present at the Sector 11 residence of the judge where a packet containing Rs 15 lakh in cash was “wrongly” delivered on August 13.

Gupta declared that Sanjeev Bansal, former Haryana additional advocate general and an accused in the case, was in constant touch with the same SC judge’s son between August 14 and 16, the day the FIR in the case was registered. “As many as five calls and an SMS were exchanged between Bansal and the judge’s son,” he said.

“I am convinced that the packet was mistakenly delivered at the HC judge’s residence in Sector 11, but why has the presence of two judges at her residence been concealed,” Gupta questioned.

He alleged that the senior HC judge present there had made a “sustained, conscious and wilful” effort to obstruct and influence the investigation.

“This senior judge even made a call to the SHO concerned. No HC judge ever calls up an SHO directly. After the incident took place, records show, this judge went towards the northern sectors in Chandigarh and made a call to Bansal. He was in a state of total panic,” claimed Gupta.

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