G D SINGH Vs. LOK NATH VERMA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Shri Devendra Pratap Singh for the petitioner and Shri A. K. Sand, learned Additional Government Advocate for the respondents.

(2.) BY our earlier order dated 31-1-2007 we had inter alia called for a report from the Director Vigilance about the details and status of the cases, which are pending for sanction with the State Government, the delays, if any, and the levels at which the delays had been occasioned and the reasons for the delays. We had directed that the said information could be presented in a tabular form. In pursuance of the said order, a supplementary affidavit dated 1-3-2007 has been filed by Shri Diwakar Kumar, Superintendent of Police, Vigilance, which mentions that till 19- 2-2007, 77 matters as detailed in Annexure SA-1 are pending before the State Government for prosecution sanction against various accused persons. Furthermore, the Director of Vigilance establishment has received a list which shows that 584 cases are pending till 27-2-2007 before the competent authorities of various departments for grant of sanction, which is annexed as Annexure SA-2.

(3.) SIMILAR agonizing delays are visible on a perusal of Annexure SA-2, which shows the pendency of matters before the competent authorities in the concerned departments for finally granting sanctions for prosecutions after orders granting previous consents are issued by the vigilance department of the State Government. Thus, in trap case No. 214 of 1980 of Jagdish Saran Srivastava, Basil Baki Navis and Suresh Kumar, Sahayak Basil Baki Navis after enquiry, which took 25 years, the matter is pending before the competent authority of the concerned department. In the case of Nand Lal Singh, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Kanpur in enquiry No. 19 of 1997, the matter is pending before the competent authority for sanction from 13-7-1999. In the case of Indra Prakash Singh, Junior Engineer, World Bank Project, Rural Engineering Service, in CIS Case No. 284 of 1998, the matter is pending before the concerned department from 21-3-2001. In the case of Mohammad Yakub, Divisional Accountant and other accountants and engineers involved in investigation case No. 92 of 1996 relating to Gorakhpur, the matter is pending for sanction since 28-11-2000 before the competent authority.