chandigarh the punjab and haryana high court has turned down the cbi plea against acquittal of controversial former haryana ias officer sanjeev kumar in a case related to the textbook scam it has held that neither any wrongful loss was caused to the government funds nor any wrongful gain accrued to the accused the 1985 batch haryana cadre ias had recently completed his 10year jail term in the jbt teachers recruitment scam along with former cm om prakash chautala and othersthe premier agency had challenged the 2012 order passed by special cbi judge chandigarh acquitting kumar and other accused in the casehcs division bench comprising justice sureshwar thakur and justice kuldeep tiwari held that order passed by the cbi court chandigarh needs no interference as it is well founded and based on a minute analysis of the material collected by the investigating officerin this case the fir challan and accompanying documents pointed out that due to acts of omission and commission raj kumar sharma was awarded contracts worth rs 198 crore for preparing video films of textbook lessons on basis of forged documents in lieu of rs 1 crore bribe to kumar rs 3 lakh to one sony handycam and audio music system of akai to kiran mishra and rs 80000 to sushant kumar swainit was alleged that mishra handed over cassettes one year after her leaving the charge sharmas kin neelam wife jagdish chander brother sharda sister ashok bhardwaj brotherinlaw amit sharma and manish nephews who signed the forged tender forms cheques withdrawal forms and other documents are neither accused nor witnesses in the casewhile acquitting all accused in 2012 the special cbi court chandigarh had observed that without sharmas relatives it is unnatural that there could be any criminal conspiracy to commit any offence sharma was granted pardon and allowed to turn an approver in absence of any costing of the work under the contract it cannot be said that there was any wrongful loss of government funds or wrongful gain by the accused it is illogical that there was any criminal conspiracy between sanjiv kumar the then state project director kiran mishra deputy director media and sushant kumar swain storekeeper as well as other accused to commit acts punishable under penal laws the cbi court had observed acquitting the accused in this casethe cbi challenged the acquittal order contending that the appreciation of evidence as made by the trial judge concerned is tainted with a vice of gross misappreciation and nonappreciation of evidencethe accused in this case including kumar were booked for forgery cheating and corruption by the cbi in 2005 kumar along with others had allegedly floated irregular tenders for printing textbooks during his tenure as a project director of haryana prathmik shiksha pariyojna parishad