A Delhi court on Thursday granted bail to Asees Singh Chadha, who was arrested after his speeding Bentley rammed into an autorickshaw killing a foreign national and leaving three persons injured in Lutyen's Delhi.
The court had on February 2 granted him interim bail till February 16 and asked him to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and cooperate in the investigation.
The court had earlier extended the custody by as many days after ED had said that he was required for confronting him with Gautam Khaitan, a Delhi-based lawyer and a co-accused who was arrested in the case and is in the agency's custody.
Judge Madhu Jain junked the plea and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the woman, saying it was filed only to blackmail the husband.
The accused, along with seven others, were arrested for allegedly planning suicide attacks and serial blasts, targeting politicians and also government installations in Delhi and other parts of north India.
On November 15, the court had convicted both Yashpal and Naresh for killing two persons and injuring three others in south Delhi’s Mahipalpur during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
The complaint termed the statement "intolerable abuse" and "absolute vilification" of the faith of the people.
Delhi police had closed the case in 1994 for want of evidence. However, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) on the riots reopened the case.
Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmender Singh granted relief to Pandey on furnishing a personal bond of Rs 50,000 and one surety of the like amount.
Special Judge Santosh Snehi Mann, who was scheduled to take cognisance of the charge sheet in the case, said the delay by the agency in the name of procedural formalities cannot be appreciated.
The one-year jail term awarded to him by a magistrate court was, however, modified to five months, given his familial responsibilities.
Following the incident, the police rushed three of its teams to Lucknow and alerted all airports across the country to trace the accused.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Sherawat issued fresh directions after the Bengaluru Police, through ED’s special public prosecutor N K Matta and advocate Samvedna Verma, sought more time to execute its earlier order.
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Taking cognisance of the chargesheet, Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Arun Bharadwaj directed all the accused to be present before it on October 6.
Other accused including Carlo Gerosa and GR Heshke have not been granted bail as they failed to appear for the hearing.
Delhi's Patiala House court acquitted two of the five hijackers- Satnam Singh and Tajender Pal Singh. The two had already served a life sentence in Pakistan for the same crime.
Delhi court granted two months time to the CBI for obtaining sanction from authorities concerned to prosecute certain accused in a case against former Union minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti
Special judge Arvind Kumar fresh non-bailable warrants against Italian middlemen Carlo Gerosa, Guido Haschke and Dubai-based businessman Rajeev Saxena in the case.
Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram were named in a charge sheet filed by the CBI in the case on July 19.
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