Cash-at-judge's door scam

Special CBI Court Judge Vimal Kumar framed charges against Yadav under Section 11 of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Such was the close association between the two,that Justice Nirmal Yadav met Ravinder Singh,co accused in the infamous ‘cash at judge’s door’ scam,despite the fact that he was wanted by the police and she was then a sitting High Court judge.
This meeting at the Delhi airport took place on August 17,2008,a day after Ravinder Singh was booked by the Chandigarh police for offering a bribe of Rs 15 lakhs to a High Court Judge. They met because Yadav had to her collect air tickets from Ravinder Singh. This was revealed by Justice Yadav herself to the Central Bureau of Investigation. Her four page statement,part of the confidential report sent by the CBI to the then Chief Justice of India,was read out by CBI special public prosecutor Anupam Gupta during arguments.
Pleading innocence,Justice Yadav had told CBI that Ravinder Singh told her that lawyer Sanjiv Bansal,another co accused,was “pressurising him (Ravinder) to tell Yadav that Ravinder had sent the money for Solan land deal”. Yadav further told CBI that she had “advised Ravinder Singh to meet the authorities and explain to them that he had not done anything wrong”.
When asked about the delivery of Rs 15 lakh,Yadav had told the CBI that she learnt about the scam only on the evening of August 14,2008 after she returned from Solan.
Yadav flatly denied that she spoke to Ravinder Singh on August 13 and 14,2008. However,CBI produced call records to show that as many as ten phone calls were exchanged between the two on these days. She denied speaking with Ravinder Singh on the two dates but disclosed that she had met Singh on August 17,2008 at Delhi Airport.

Yadav also told CBI that her association with Ravinder Singh was a few years old and that she was introduced to him at the “residence of a senior High Court Judge Justice R L Anand on some social occasion”. The statement assumes significance as Ravinder Singh had also revealed that whenever he used to visit Chandigarh he used to stay at the residence of Justice (retd) R L Anand (then a sitting High Court Judge).

A special CBI court in Chandigarh on  framed charges against former Punjab and Haryana High Court Judge Nirmal Yadav in the 2008 cash-at-judge’s door scam after the Supreme Court dismissed her plea for stay on proceedings of the trial court.
Special CBI Court Judge Vimal Kumar framed charges against Yadav under Section 11 of the Prevention of Corruption Act and four others under various sections of the IPC, including Section 120-B (conspiracy).
On July 31 2013, the CBI Court here had accepted the CBI charge sheet for framing of charges in the case against her and other accused.
The other accused in the case are Sanjiv Bansal, former Additional Advocate General, Haryana, Delhi-based hotelier Ravinder Singh, city-based businessman Rajiv Gupta and one Nirmal Singh.
All the five accused were present in the court.
The case had hit headlines after a packet containing Rs. 15 lakh was allegedly wrongly delivered at residence of Nirmaljit Kaur, who was also High Court judge, on August 13, 2008.

The matter was reported to the Chandigarh Police, but the case was later handed over to the CBI.
The CBI on March 4, 2011 charge-sheeted Justice Nirmal Yadav, who was then a judge in the Uttarakhand High Court, in the case on the day of her retirement.She had been transferred from the Punjab and Haryana High Court in November 2009.
The CBI held that justice Yadav had committed an offence punishable under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, while the court had also ordered framing of charges against Bansal, Gupta and Singh under various Sections of the IPC including 120-B.
The Supreme Court had on January 3 this year dismissed Yadav’s plea for a stay on proceedings of trial court and pulled her up for adopting delaying tactics.
A bench headed by Justice H L Dattu had ticked off the former judge for filing multiple petitions in various courts to delay the trial court proceedings in the 2008 case.
Yadav’s counsel submitted that it is a case of no evidence and the trial court should be restrained from framing charges against her but the apex court was not satisfied and dismissed the plea.
Yadav had approached the apex court challenging the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s 22 November, 2013 order, dismissing her plea against trial court¿s proceedings.
Yadav had moved the high court against the orders of the special CBI judge, Chandigarh, who had given the go-ahead for her prosecution in the alleged corruption case.
On 31 July 2013, the trial court had ordered framing of charges against Yadav.
 Sources : indianexpress.com