Hindustan Times ·
Bribery case: Bombay HC sets aside spl court’s bail to 3, including CGST officials
The trio were arrested by the CBI, a day before they got the bail from the Thane court on August 28, which was subsequently challenged by the agency in the high court
Allowing a criminal revision application from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Bombay High Court (HC) on Wednesday quashed and set aside a Thane special court’s order, which granted bail to three people in an alleged ₹40 lakh bribery case after holding their arrests to be “illegal” on grounds that the procedure prescribed by law had not been followed.
While the high court remanded the three accused to CBI’s custody for two days, the agency could not trace one of them, the CGST additional commissioner.
The high court’s order remanded the three accused persons, Vinay Kantheti, additional commissioner (GST), CGST Raigad; Rakesh Sinha, superintendent (GST), CGST Raigad; and another person Narinder Rajput, to two days’ CBI custody. The high court, after examining the record, found that “the grounds of arrest had been communicated and that the relevant family members and advocates had been informed”, CBI officials said.
Pursuant to the high court’s order, Sinha and Rajput were taken into CBI’s custody for their custodial interrogation, officials said. The CBI’s case officials however allegedly could not trace Kantheti on Wednesday after the high court’s order, officials said.