CBI submits status report on tainted HC lawyers

A CBI official told The Indian Express that they have submitted sealed envelopes before the court containing the status report on each of the 11 cases being probed into by the agency. The team engaged in the investigation has recorded the statements of the complainants in the cases and the process of recording statement of the named accused is still going on,the official said. The UP government on November 19 handed over the investigation in 18 other cases registered against the lawyers at Lucknow police stations to the CB-CID. The high court had asked the state government to conduct investigation into the cases.

The Lucknow bench of the high court had issued an order to identify the lawyers with criminal antecedents and also to probe into the criminal cases registered against them while hearing the petition of lawyer Prashant Singh Gaur,on October 26. Gaur had sought the court’s intervention for initiating action against a group of lawyers involved in nefarious activities and facing criminal charges. The Lucknow Income-Tax Department has also been probing into the financial status of the alleged tainted lawyers.