NEW DELHI: Deciding at the anticipatory bail plea of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor — chargesheeted for abetting his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s suicide — a town court on Thursday mentioned Delhi Police didn't deliver the rest on document to turn if he had attempted to influence witnesses or tampered with evidence.
The prosecution had adversarial Tharoor’s anticipatory bail plea, however special CBI pass judgement on Arvind Kumar didn’t find substance in it. “It is not in dispute that the accused joined the investigation as and when known as through the investigation agency. The accused, at any cut-off date, hadn’t attempted to influence any witness, even supposing some of them had been his home servants,” the pass judgement on mentioned.
Senior counsels Kapil Sibal, Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Vikas Pahwa had on Wednesday contended since Tharoor was once now not arrested ahead of submitting of the chargesheet, he will have to be given protection from arrest. Opposing the argument, special public prosecutor Atul Srivastava had argued, “He (Tharoor) is a common flyer and would possibly settle in another country. Some of the key witnesses — together with Narayan Singh and Bajrangi — are nonetheless working with Tharoor and he would possibly influence them.”
The court noticed that Tharoor is a sitting MP and was once MoS for exterior affairs and located “nothing on document” that might counsel that he had attempted to either influence any witness or tamper with evidence. “He has joined investigation as and when known as. Apprehension of the prosecution that he would possibly flee from justice and would possibly attempt to move to a overseas nation could also be without any basis,” it noticed.
The prosecution had “didn't cite even a single example” when Tharoor made such a strive. The pass judgement on was once of the view that Tharoor had now not been arrested despite the fact that the case was once registered on January 1, 2015. “I order that within the tournament of arrest of accused through a police respectable, or at the example of Metropolitan Magistrate on his look, he can be launched on bail on his furnishing private bond of Rs 1 lakh with one surety,” the pass judgement on held.
Tharoor was once asked to not go away the rustic, tamper with evidence and influence witnesses.
The prosecution had adversarial Tharoor’s anticipatory bail plea, however special CBI pass judgement on Arvind Kumar didn’t find substance in it. “It is not in dispute that the accused joined the investigation as and when known as through the investigation agency. The accused, at any cut-off date, hadn’t attempted to influence any witness, even supposing some of them had been his home servants,” the pass judgement on mentioned.
Senior counsels Kapil Sibal, Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Vikas Pahwa had on Wednesday contended since Tharoor was once now not arrested ahead of submitting of the chargesheet, he will have to be given protection from arrest. Opposing the argument, special public prosecutor Atul Srivastava had argued, “He (Tharoor) is a common flyer and would possibly settle in another country. Some of the key witnesses — together with Narayan Singh and Bajrangi — are nonetheless working with Tharoor and he would possibly influence them.”
The court noticed that Tharoor is a sitting MP and was once MoS for exterior affairs and located “nothing on document” that might counsel that he had attempted to either influence any witness or tamper with evidence. “He has joined investigation as and when known as. Apprehension of the prosecution that he would possibly flee from justice and would possibly attempt to move to a overseas nation could also be without any basis,” it noticed.
The prosecution had “didn't cite even a single example” when Tharoor made such a strive. The pass judgement on was once of the view that Tharoor had now not been arrested despite the fact that the case was once registered on January 1, 2015. “I order that within the tournament of arrest of accused through a police respectable, or at the example of Metropolitan Magistrate on his look, he can be launched on bail on his furnishing private bond of Rs 1 lakh with one surety,” the pass judgement on held.
Tharoor was once asked to not go away the rustic, tamper with evidence and influence witnesses.
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