HC defers bail plea of 5 2G case accused
The Delhi high court on Thursday deferred the bail plea hearing of five corporate honchos, accused in 2G spectrum scam case and arrested on Wednesday by the Central Bureau of Investigation, till April 26.
The five accused — Sanjay Chandra of Unitech Wireless, Vinod Goenka of DB Realty, Gautam Doshi, Hari Nair and Surendra Pipara of Reliance ADAG will spend at least six days in the Tihar Jail.
Former attorney-general Soli J. Sorabji, appearing for the accused, Gautam Doshi of Reliance ADAG, sought bail for his client and said, “Bail is the rule and jail is exception. The mere apprehension (of CBI) is not good enough as the ground to trample personal liberty of the accused.”
Besides Mr Sorabji, a battery of senior defence lawyers, Mukul Rohatgi, K.T.S. Tulsi, Rajeev Nayar and others assailed the dismissal of the bail plea of the accused by the special CBI judge saying “He gravely erred in terming the case as of the highest magnitude as it is the punishment and not the amount involved that decides the same.”
Unitech Wireless (Tamil Nadu) Ltd managing director Sanjay Chandra and Group MD of Reliance ADAG Gautam Doshi, co-promoter of Swan Telecom Vinod Goenka and Reliance ADAG’s Surrender Pipara and Hari Nair, who were not arrested by the CBI during the investigation, were sent to jail on Wednesday.
Initiating the argument, Mr Tulsi, appearing for Sanjay Chandra of Unitech, told Justice Bharihoke that in the chargesheet, there were no specific allegation against his client.
After hearing the argument from the defence lawyers, Justice Ajit Bharihoke has asked the counsel for the CBI U.U. Lalit to present his arguments against grant of bail on next Tuesday.
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