https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297359 Where reliable material disclosed serious administrative and financial irregularities in the implementation and utilisation of NRHM funds, the Allahabad HC held that a CBI preliminary enquiry was warranted on a prima facie basis. Audit reports, mission reports, government communications and related records showed deficiencies in supervision, fund flow, procurement and monitoring, and the Court treated those circumstances as sufficient for independent enquiry by an outside agency. The Court also held that it was not required to await the CAG report, because audit scrutiny and CBI enquiry operate on different fields, and rejected the objection that the CBI lacked competence to conduct a preliminary enquiry. It therefore upheld direction for an all-State preliminary enquiry, with liberty to register regular cases if cognisable offences emerged. en-us Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:12:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297359 Where reliable material disclosed serious administrative and financial irregularities in the implementation and utilisation of NRHM funds, the Allahabad HC held that a CBI preliminary enquiry was warranted on a prima facie basis. Audit reports, mission reports, government communications and related records showed deficiencies in supervision, fund flow, procurement and monitoring, and the Court treated those circumstances as sufficient for independent enquiry by an outside agency. The Court also held that it was not required to await the CAG report, because audit scrutiny and CBI enquiry operate on different fields, and rejected the objection that the CBI lacked competence to conduct a preliminary enquiry. It therefore upheld direction for an all-State preliminary enquiry, with liberty to register regular cases if cognisable offences emerged. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297359