NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court will on Monday will give its verdict on the bail plea filed by Unitech MD Sanjay Chandra, DB group promoter Vinod Goenka and three senior Reliance ADAG executives who are now in judicial custody for their alleged role in the in the 2G scam.
DMK’s Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi, who was sent to judicial custody on Friday, may file her bail plea in the high court on Monday.
Justice Ajit Bharihoke of the HC is scheduled to decide if the five accused, including Reliance ADAG senior executives Gautam Doshi, Hari Nair and Surendra Pipara, should continue to stay in Tihar jail. All of them were arrested on April 20, after the CBI special judge hearing the 2G scam case, OP Saini, refused to grant them bail.
The bail applications of many other accused, including those of former telecom secretary Siddartha Behura and Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Balwa, his brother Asif Balwa and DB group executive Rajeev Agarwal, are presently at various stages of hearing before the 2G trial court. Former telecom minister A Raja is yet to seek bail, but is expected to do so next week.
In the wake of her bail plea being dismissed on Friday by the trial court, Kanimozhi and co-accused Sharad Kumar, MD of Kalaignar TV, would be looking forward to Justice Bharihoke’s order since it would set a precedent for others. Sources said the two could also file their bail pleas before the HC on the same day.
The HC had recently reserved its verdict on the pleas of the five accused after hearing several eminent lawyers bat for the business bigwigs and CBI’s counter-arguments for nearly two weeks.
While the defence lawyers said their clients were not arrested by the CBI during its investigations and thus deserved bail, Supreme Court-appointed special prosecutor for 2G scam, U U Lalit, argued that the corporate entities and individuals were direct beneficiaries of the spectrum deal. He said they were also involved in a conspiracy along with former telecom minister A Raja to obtain benefits from the grant of spectrum licences. Lalit claimed that Raja had advanced the cut-off date for submitting applications for spectrum allocation, and also altered the licensing policy to favour Swan Telecom and Unitech Ltd.
Lalit also pointed out that some firms were floated to transfer the money that changed hands following grant of spectrum licences to the beneficiary telecom firms. The prosecutor said since the CBI had already filed its second chargesheet, the accused corporate honchos should not be given bail at this juncture.
DMK’s Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi, who was sent to judicial custody on Friday, may file her bail plea in the high court on Monday.
Justice Ajit Bharihoke of the HC is scheduled to decide if the five accused, including Reliance ADAG senior executives Gautam Doshi, Hari Nair and Surendra Pipara, should continue to stay in Tihar jail. All of them were arrested on April 20, after the CBI special judge hearing the 2G scam case, OP Saini, refused to grant them bail.
The bail applications of many other accused, including those of former telecom secretary Siddartha Behura and Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Balwa, his brother Asif Balwa and DB group executive Rajeev Agarwal, are presently at various stages of hearing before the 2G trial court. Former telecom minister A Raja is yet to seek bail, but is expected to do so next week.
In the wake of her bail plea being dismissed on Friday by the trial court, Kanimozhi and co-accused Sharad Kumar, MD of Kalaignar TV, would be looking forward to Justice Bharihoke’s order since it would set a precedent for others. Sources said the two could also file their bail pleas before the HC on the same day.
The HC had recently reserved its verdict on the pleas of the five accused after hearing several eminent lawyers bat for the business bigwigs and CBI’s counter-arguments for nearly two weeks.
While the defence lawyers said their clients were not arrested by the CBI during its investigations and thus deserved bail, Supreme Court-appointed special prosecutor for 2G scam, U U Lalit, argued that the corporate entities and individuals were direct beneficiaries of the spectrum deal. He said they were also involved in a conspiracy along with former telecom minister A Raja to obtain benefits from the grant of spectrum licences. Lalit claimed that Raja had advanced the cut-off date for submitting applications for spectrum allocation, and also altered the licensing policy to favour Swan Telecom and Unitech Ltd.
Lalit also pointed out that some firms were floated to transfer the money that changed hands following grant of spectrum licences to the beneficiary telecom firms. The prosecutor said since the CBI had already filed its second chargesheet, the accused corporate honchos should not be given bail at this juncture.
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