New Delhi: The co-owners of a coaching centre basement in Delhi’s old Rajinder Nagar where three UPSC aspirants drowned have moved a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court seeking bail after the investigation in the case was transferred to the CBI by the High Court. The Rouse Avenue court will hear bail pleas today. Principal District and Session judge Anuj Bajaj Chandana on Tuesday listed the matter for hearing on Wednesday.
Accused Harvinder, Tejinder, Parvinder and Sarabjeet have moved bail pleas through Advocates Kaushal Jeet Kait, Daksh Gupta, Jatin Gupta and others.
The accused have been booked under sections 105, 106(1), 115(2), 290, and 3(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, in a case registered at Police Station Rajinder Nagar on July 27. The accused were arrested on July 28.
It is stated that subsequent to the order dated August 2, 2024, of the High Court, the Sessions Court at Tis Hazari, by way of an order dated August 5, 2024, dismissed the bail application with the liberty to approach the appropriate court. Earlier, their applications were dismissed by the Metropolitan Magistrate on July 31, 2024. The court has granted Liberty to accused persons to approach the competent court.
Accused persons have sought bail on grounds that the Metropolitan Magistrate did not consider the fact that the applicant was not named in the FIR and the applicant, alongwith other co-owners, as good Samaritans themselves, went to the police station and was subjected to custody of the Investigating Officer, despite the fact that the IO had not even called them, which clearly shows the bona fide of the applicants.
It also stated that the trial court did not consider the submissions and material placed on record by the accused persons.