Ex-NITI Aayog CEO Sindhushree Khullar and others in INX Media case granted bail by Delhi court
Delhi court has granted bail to former NITI Aayog CEO Sindhushree Khullar and others in the INX Media corruption case. The case also involves former Finance Minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti as accused.
Chidabmarams are already on bail in the case and Special Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar also granted bail to former Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Finance Minister Pradeep Kumar Bagga and former FIPB Director Prabodh Saxena.
Former section officer of the FIPB unit in the Finance Ministry, Ajeet Kumar Dungdung; the then under Secretary in the FIPB unit, Rabindra Prasad and former Joint Secretary (Foreign Trade) DEA Anup K Pujari were also granted the relief by the court.
The bail was granted on a security of Rs 2 lakh each. The judge who granted the bail also directed that the accused would not leave the country without its permission. It further directed them not to tamper with the evidence or hamper the probe. The CBI had opposed their applications, saying they may tamper with evidence and flee from justice if granted the relief.
Senior Advocate Siddharth Luthra and Advocate Vikash Kumar Pathak while requesting for bail for said that the CBI did not arrest the accused persons while probing the matter. "Now while the probe is already complete and the final report filed, there is no ground to take them in custody since there is no ground to suggest that they tried to hamper the probe," they said.
On Tuesday, the court directed the CBI to hand over to Chidambarams certain documents filed along with the charge sheet in the case. The judge issued the direction to the CBI during the hearing in the corruption case after the father-son duo told the court that they had not received various documents filed along with the charge sheet.
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