Prism (Peoples Right to Information and Development Implementing Society (PRISM) had last year filed a restoration PIL against the state government’s alleged withdrawal of a criminal case in this connection.
A Prism statement said here today the high court’s divisional bench comprising Justice T Vaiphei leh, Justice Hrishikesh Roy admitted the restoration petition.
Prism’s PIL had been rejected in October last year by Justice M Lokur of the high court.
Prism had lodged an FIR with the state anti-corruption bureau in 2008 to investigate the alleged misappropriation of funds in the construction of two micro hydro projects--Kau-Tlabung and Tuipanglui--in southern Mizoram.
''After a thorough investigation, vigilance department ordered ACB to register a criminal case against the concerned engineers on May 13, 2010,'' the PIL stated.
The State Vigilance Department, however, ordered the bureau to withdraw the case on July 2 without stating any reason.
''We termed the government’s order to withdraw the case as an attempt to cover up a misdeed, which we felt was a clear indication that influential people were involved in the corruption,'' Prism said in the statement.
Sources said the government, in a confidential notification on July 2 last year, had decided to constitute a departmental inquiry into the case, instead of a criminal As a result, the special court (anti-corruption) on July 3 last year allowed the 13 engineers (of power and works departments), whose names had appeared in the ACB investigation, to withdraw their anticipatory bail petitions, Prism sources stated.
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