{"id":21147,"date":"2012-06-25T12:50:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T07:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=21147"},"modified":"2012-06-25T13:05:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T07:35:15","slug":"virbhadra-singh-corruption-charges-framed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/virbhadra-singh-corruption-charges-framed","title":{"rendered":"Virbhadra Singh: Corruption charges framed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/virbhadra-singh-corruption-charges-framed\/vir\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21151\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21151\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/virbhadra-singh-corruption-charges-framed\/vir\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/vir.jpg?fit=780%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"780,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"vir\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/vir.jpg?fit=150%2C115&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/vir.jpg?fit=300%2C230&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21151\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/vir-150x115.jpg?resize=150%2C115&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/vir.jpg?resize=150%2C115&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/vir.jpg?resize=300%2C230&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/06\/vir.jpg?w=780&amp;ssl=1 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>A Shimla court here on Monday framed corruption charges against Union minister and former\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;text-decoration: underline\">Himachal Pradesh\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>chief minister\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Virbhadra Singh\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span>and his wife Pratibha Singh.<\/p>\n<p>Special Judge BL Soni pronounced the order in the court.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution had filed the chargesheet against the couple in October 2010.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, the couple was bookedin Aug 3, 2009 on the basis of an audio cassette released by Virbhadra Singh&#8217;s political adversary Vijai Singh Mankotia in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The former chief minister Virbhadra Singh faces charges of misusing his official position and criminal misconduct in 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Shimla court here on Monday framed corruption charges against Union minister and former\u00a0Himachal Pradesh\u00a0chief minister\u00a0Virbhadra Singh\u00a0and his wife Pratibha Singh. 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