chandigarh the haryana state vigilance bureau has exonerated dhanesh adhlakha chairman of haryana state pharmacy council hspc and raj kumar registrar of the the council in the cashforlicence scamall this came to light on august 31 when the bureau filed the chargesheet against council vicechairman sohan lal kansal his alleged tout subhash arora and a couple of more officials of the council thereby giving a clean chit to adhlakha and raj kumar vigilance bureau officials insisted that adhlakha and raj kumar were exonerated as there was no evidence found against them in this particular casewe carried out a thorough investigation including examination of files records and licenses issued through arrested accused arora and kansal but there was no evidence against adhlakha and raj kumar which could support the allegations levelled in the fir hence they were exonerated and a chargesheet has been filed against all those who are directly and indirectly involved said a senior official in the bureauthe official denied any kind of political pressure from any quarter in the matter saying we have not spared any wrongdoer in the caseon july 2 the vigilance bureau had arrested council vicechairman sohan lal kansal and his alleged tout subhash arora in the case on the complaint of local resident the accused allegedly used to take bribe in lieu of issuing licencesbesides arrests of two accused on the same day adhlakha and raj kumar were also named in the fir registered at the haryana state vigilance bureau police station in hisar both adhlakha and raj kumar were elusive from the bureau meanwhile the two were removed from their posts with the government appointing officers to officiate the charges consequent to the registration of a case a recommendation was made to remove me and raj kumar but we were never removed as there was no such provision in the act governing pharmancy council as far as the case is concerned we had joined investigations in the last week of july said adhlakha it had been alleged that since adhlakha had good connections in the government and bjp leadership in haryana and new delhi there was pressure on the vigilance bureau to go slow in the case