By IANS
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court Monday dismissed a petition of former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister P.K. Thungan challenging the court’s jurisdiction to hear a case filed against him for alleged corruption in a Nagaland irrigation project.
Thungan, who was also a minister in the P.V. Narasimha Rao cabinet, had sought the direction of the court to quash the charges against him saying that the case should have been filed in Nagaland as the alleged cause of action was in the north-eastern state.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a case in the district court against Thungan and others, charging them of usurping the money sanctioned by the central government for the irrigation project in Nagaland, without executing it.
Thungan faces another case in the high court for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
Earlier, the trial court at Tees Hazari in the capital had acquitted Thungan in the disproportionate assets case on account of lack of evidence against him.