An area classes court docket Thursday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of former Andaman and Nicobar Chief Secretary Jitendra Narain, who faces gangrape fees.
Narain approached the classes court docket after the Supreme Court docket on Monday mentioned, “We’re of the thought-about opinion that curiosity of justice would stand served by directing Respondent No. 2 (Narain) to make an utility earlier than the jurisdiction court docket to use for anticipatory bail, as no helpful objective might be served by coming into into the controversy at this stage and adjudicating the identical on deserves.”
A day after The Indian Specific reported on the allegations, Narain was suspended on orders of the Residence Ministry on October 17.
On October 20, the Delhi Excessive Court docket had granted Narain interim safety from arrest until October 28. A day later, he approached the Calcutta Excessive Court docket circuit bench, sitting at Port Blair, looking for extension of time, saying the following circuit bench would begin solely by November 14, by which era the safety to him might be over.
In its October 21 order, the circuit bench continued the reduction and requested him to look earlier than the particular investigation workforce (SIT) probing the case.
The Andaman administration challenged this earlier than the SC, saying the accused approaching the Delhi and Calcutta HCs, “as an alternative of…the jurisdiction classes court docket at Port Blair, with a plea that no discussion board was accessible to him on account of trip is nothing however a blatant try of discussion board buying and abuse of technique of regulation”.
On Monday, showing for the UT administration, Solicitor Basic Tushar Mehta asserted that the assertion given by the sufferer to the Justice of the Peace below CrPC Part 164 has already been corroborated by unbiased witnesses. Mehta mentioned the accused has “already tampered with proof”.
He identified that the co-accused within the case had gone to the jurisdictional court docket within the UT however the court docket denied him any reduction. Showing for Narain, senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi mentioned the allegation of rape is of April 14, and that Narain was on an official go to to Delhi from April 11 to April 18.