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M. NAGAPRASANNA
Neha Bansal – Appellant
Versus
Central Bureau of Investigation – Respondent
JUDGMENT
1. The petitioner/accused No.8 is before this Court calling in question order dtd. 27/1/2020 by which the XLVII Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge and Special Judge for CBI Cases, Bengaluru rejects the application filed by the petitioner in Special C.C.No.106 of 2008 seeking her discharge from the array of accused.
2. Facts adumbrated are as follows:-
The petitioner is a doctor by profession, a participant in the postgraduate entrance test conducted by the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences ('the University' for short) for admission to postgraduate course. The petitioner came out successful in the written test securing high percentage of marks and was accordingly given admission to postgraduate course. A little later a paper publication crops up to the effect that few of the students who had poor academic career hitherto had secured high marks in the post graduate entrance examination. The issue was blown out in the media which necessitated the Government to constitute a Committee to go into veracity of the allegations made in the conduct of examination as projected by the media. This led to the matter being entrusted to the Central Bureau of Investigation ('C
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