SACHCHIDANAND GUPTA Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) INSTANT writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India relates to misappropriation of fund, allocated to different districts of the State of U.P. by the Central Government under the 'Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005' (In short, MGNREGA).

(2.) DEMONS of corruption are hunting the public exchequer. Alexander Pope in his Moral essays (Epistle to Bathurst) had very nicely naratted the seriousness of corruption and its effect. To quote relevant portion :

(3.) THE petitioner, a media personnel when came to know regarding mal -practices under the Scheme (supra), has preferred the writ petition seeking a mandamus for investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation. During course of hearing, no serious objection has been raised with effective rebuttal with regard to pleading on record to the maintainability of writ petition as well as the material brought on record for CBI enquiry by the petitioner except that the State Government is seized with matter and proceeding ahead with enquiry from its own agency.