and the CBI Case: Why It Wasn’t
By Adv Sreeraj Muralidharan BBM, FCS, LLB, CFORA advsreerajm@gmail.com When I wrote earlier about The CBI Case That Wasn’t , the order had just been passed. My client had walked out of court after carrying, for years, the peculiar burden that comes with a central agency prosecution. There are lighter ways to live. This was not one of them. Now that the order is available, the more interesting part is not the result. Results are easy to announce. Reasoning is where the real story begins. This file ran into thousands of pages. Statements, annexures, tax records, calculations, procedural paper, more paper, and then the usual Indian institutional belief that if enough paper is accumulated, law will eventually surrender out of exhaustion. On the face of it, the allegations looked grave enough: Section 420 of the IPC, Section 120B of the IPC and Section 276C of the Income Tax Act. It had all the correct ingredients for procedural drama. The only diffi...