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The Central Bureau of Investigation told the Bombay High Court on Monday that there was no need for prior sanction to investigate corruption allegations against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, Live Law reported.
The CBI filed an affidavit before the court, opposing Deshmukh’s petition to quash the first information report registered against him.
The minister had argued that CBI needed sanction to prosecute him since the alleged instances of corruption were from the time when he was a public servant. He also claimed that the case against him was dubious.
On the other hand, the CBI said it needed no such sanction as it was acting on the court’s order to initiate an inquiry against Deshmukh.
The investigation agency pointed out that the Maharashtra government had also not challenged that registration of the FIR against Deshmukh but only opposed certain parts of it. “Hence, State is neither making a grievance of lack of sanction nor claiming that no offence has been made against the then Minister,” CBI said in the affidavit, according to Live Law.
The CBI told the court that Deshmukh’s petition was an abuse of the legal process, according to PTI. It added that granting relief to the former minister would hinder its investigation, which was at a…