The High Court of Delhi recently granted anticipatory bail to Ex Additional Director General of Police (Law & order) in a cheating case. He is an accused in a case registered at Police station Inder Puri, Delhi.
The case was registered in 2016 against a private company & its directors & its employees.
It was said by the Police that the company was allegedly involved in cheating people on the pretext of giving a good return on investments.
Justice Anu Malhotra granted anticipatory bail to the accused noting his age & clean past antecedents.
The HC said that the applicant/accused is said to be aged 75 years with no previous antecedents against him & has joined the investigation pursuant to the directions given on Aug 4, 2022, in view thereof, the applicant in the event of arrest be released on bail on his furnishing a personal bond in the sum of Rs 50,000 with one surety in the like amount to the satisfaction of the trial court.
The bench noted in the order of Sept 20, the submission of Lawyer Arpit Batra, counsel for the accused, that apart from his having earlier been posted as Head of the Department (HOD) in the company Davis Value Cards Pvt. Ltd. in which he was upgraded as a Director & as a consequence thereof signed routinely on the documents of the company, the applicant has no other role to play.
During the hearing on the bail plea, Delhi filed a status report stating that the accused, Rajdeep Maan & Arun Sood were the applicants in the bank opening form in Laxmi Vilas Bank. It was also stated that the cheated money was deposited through 4 cheques.
It was submitted by the State that the applicant/accused was officially a director of the company from Jan 17, 2014, & thus he would have knowledge of the working process & the intent of the company to cheat & commit fraud with persons.
The Court was informed by the State that all other accused in the instant case are absconding & three of them, namely Arun Sood, Sumit Verma & Rajdeep Maan have been declared proclaimed offenders but the main allegations are levelled against Arun Soon & Rajdeep Maan.
The petitioner had moved a plea through advocates Arpit Batra & Saurav Sharma seeking anticipatory bail. It was submitted by the counsel that the petitioner was an employee & was entrusted with the task of examining & inquiring into complaints filed by the then customers of the company.
It was also submitted that the customers used to purchase holiday packages from the company. Whenever a customer filed his grievances, the Managing Director of the company sought legal opinion from the petitioner as the purpose of the appointment of a senior retired police officer was to check the negligence committed by the employees of the company & to give a legal opinion. He was never involved in the day-to-day business of the company & also did not exercise any administrative or financial control over the affairs of the company.
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