Scam accused to move high court; CID may seek further remand of officer.
With rejection of the bail applications of suspended IAS officer Pradeep Sharma and three others in the alleged Bhuj marketing yard land-scam case by the sessions court here on Friday, the legal battle would now shift to Gujarat High Court as the accused have decided to file their bail applications there on Monday.
On the other hand, principal sessions judge BV Mayani rejected the revision application of the CID for further remand of seven days of all the accused saying that the four-day remand granted initially by the chief judicial magistrate’s court was enough.
“We have won one case -- rejection of CID demand for more remand -- and lost the other case -- bail of our four clients. We have decided to file bail applications in the High Court on Monday,’’ Bharat Dholakia, one of the lawyers of accused, told DNA on Friday.
But sources say that CID too is likely to file a revision application for further remand of Sharma and others in the High Court. “This is however to be decided by the government first. If the government gives its go-ahead, the revision for further remand would be filed in the High Court," prosecution lawyer Bhandarkar Yogesh Dattatray said in a brief talk with DNA on Friday evening.
He said the prosecution succeeded in their opposition to the bail applications on various grounds, chiefly on gravity of the offence. He said the judge considered the charges against the accused to be serious in nature with some of them relating to forgery being offences attracting punishment of life imprisonment.
“The nature, gravity and manner of the offences, facts and circumstances as well as impact on public at large -- considering all these I come to the conclusion that this is not a fit case for enlargement of the present applicants," the operating para of the order issued by the judge said, he added.
Henry James Chacko, on whose complaint an investigation by
CID was launched resulting in the arrest of Sharma, said his NGO was fully prepared to fight the case in the High Court also. “We are not after any particular person. We are working in the interest of truth and justice, seeking punishment only to the wrong-doer. This is the motto of our organisation," he said.
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