Besides furnishing a security of Rs 25,000 to the court, Jaitley was also directed to give an affidavit to it that her counsel would represent her in her absence and that she may not seek adjournment of the court proceedings on the ground of her absence.
She was also directed not to extend her stay in Nepal in any circumstances whatsoever.
Meanwhile, the court also recorded the statement of prosecution witness Brij Kishore Sharma, the accounts manager with Buffalo Network Private Limited, which was rechristened as Anant Media Pvt Ltd, of which Tarun Tejpal is one of the directors.
Earlier, on her return from Singapore, where she had attended a panel debate on “Smith Women Leading Change: Asia 2012”, Jaitley had sought the court's permission to retain her passport saying she needed it every now and then to go abroad to attend such panel discussion on various issues.
Jaitley along with her erstwhile party colleague Gopal Pacherwal and retired Major General S P Murgai is facing trial for allegedly conspiring for “accepting bribe” for obtaining supply order of defence equipment in favour of a private firm.
The case against them was lodged on the basis of a sting ‘Operation Westend' conducted by newsportal tehelka.com in 2000, purportedly exposing the alleged corruption in defence deals.
George Fernandes, who was founder of Samata Party, was the then defence minister during the NDA rule.
The court had framed charges against the trio for offences of criminal conspiracy under the IPC and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
It had said the accused, along with one Surender Kumar Surekha who has turned approver, conspired to accept bribe from Mathew Samuel, representative of M/s Westend International for inducing officials of Ministry of Defence for obtaining supply orders for Hand Held Thermal Imagers (HHTIs) from Army Headquarters in favour of the firm.
