Devender Kumar VS Central Bureau of Investigation

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NAJMI WAZIRI
Devender Kumar – Appellant
Versus
Central Bureau of Investigation – Respondent

Counsel for the Parties:
For the Petitioner in W.P. (Crl.) 3247/2018:Mr. Dayan Krishnan, Sr. Advocate with Mr. Vivek Singh, Mr. Swatik Dalai and Ms. Aakashi Lodha, Advocates
For the Petitioner in W.P. (Crl.) 3248/2018:Mr. Amarendra Sharan, Senior Advocate with Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari and Mr. Shashwat Singh, Advocates
For the Petitioner in W.P. (Crl.) 3292/2018:Ms. Seema Seth, Advocate
For the Respondent No.2:Mr. Vikramjeet Banerjee, Additional Solicitor General with Mrs. Rajdipa Behura, Special Public Prosecutor with SP Mr. Satish Dagar, IO. Ms. Maninder Acharya, Addl. Solicitor General with Mr. Ajay Digpual, CGSC, Mr. Soumava Karhakar, Mr. Sahil Sood, Mr. Harshul Choudhary and Mr. Viplav Acharya, Advocates for UOI. Mr. Rahul Sharma, Advocate
Mr. M. A. Niyazi, Ms. Anamika Ghai and Ms. Kirti Jaswal, Advocates for Respondent No.3 in Item Nos.1 and 2
For the Intervenor:Mr. Sunil Fernandes, Ms. Nupur Kumar, Ms. Priyanka Indra Sharma and Mr. Arnav Vidyarthi, Advocates
Mr. Shashwat Singh, Ms. Harshal Gupta and Ms. Devyani Gupta, Advocates

JUDGMENT

Najmi Waziri Najmi Waziri, J.—W.P. (Crl.) 3248/2018 shall be treated as the lead case and unless stated otherwise, the expression petitioner shall mean the petitioner in this case. Respondent no. 2 is the Director, CBI, Respondent no. 3 is a Joint Director in the CBI, Respondent no. 4 is the UOI. The petitioner seeks quashing of FIR No. RC 13(A)/2018/AC-III dated 15.10.2018 (in short FIR/RC 2018) registered by the CBI. It is impugned on the ground that it falls foul of the statutory bar under Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, (in short PC Act). The said provision of law reads as under:—

“...17.A. Persons authorised to investigate.—Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), no police officer below the rank,—

(a) In the case of the Delhi Special Police Establishment, of an Inspector of Police;

(b) In the metropolitan areas of Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and Ahmedabad and in any other metropolitan area notified as such under sub-section (1) of section 8 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), of an Assistant Commissioner of Police;

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NAJMI WAZIRI
Devender Kumar – Appellant
Versus
Central Bureau of Investigation – Respondent