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JAMMU : In a significant development aimed at punishing those involved in the corruption cases and major scams, more than 100 prosecution sanctions have been granted by the General Administration Department during past three years to the Central Bureau of Investi-gation, Anti-Corruption Bureau and Crime Branch, which have registered FIRs against Government servants including the officers of All India Services under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The improvement in grant of prosecution sanction has been witnessed mainly because of repeated directives issued by the Division Bench of the High Court in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) titled Sheikh Mohd Shafi and Another Versus Union of India and Others.
When the PIL came up for hearing few days back, Advocate General D C Raina, in the open court, furnished a list prepared by the General Administration Department regarding grant of prosecution sanctions in the corruption cases.
