HC disposes PIL seeking CBI probe into SSF expenditure
PTI | 10:08 PM,Aug 28,2010Ranchi, Aug 28 (PTI) Jharkhand High Court disposed of a PIL seeking CBI probe into alleged irregularities in the expenditure of Secret Service Fund (SSF) today ruling that the government can decide on its own. The division bench headed by Chief Justice Bhagawati Prasad disposed of the PIL as the state government yesterday filed an affidavit stating that it was prepared to recommend a probe by the central intelligence agency. The court on August 23 directed the state to file the affidavit clarifying whether it had considered recommendation of a CBI probe. SSF is spent to obtain information secret in nature and on matters relating to the maintainenance of law and order. The PIL was filed by R S Singh, a social activist who demanded a CBI probe into the expenditure of SSF soon after the Accountant General on June 2, 2009 wrote a letter to the government raising doubts in its expenditure as requisite documents were allegedly not submitted after the withdrawal of Rs 5.6 crore from the fund on March 16, 2006.
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