Express news service : New Delhi, Sat Jan 14 2012
The CBI on Friday arrested Central Excise Commissioner Anup Kumar Srivastava after a local court dismissed his anticipatory bail plea in connection with his alleged role in a graft case. Srivastava was arrested by the agency soon after the private hospital, where he had got himself admitted for treatment, discharged him. According to sources, a team of doctors from AIIMS were supposed to examine him on the court’s orders but the hospital discharged him before this could be done.
The agency, meanwhile, also got three-day custody of Lallan Ojha, excise superintendent and co-accused in the case. Ojha, along with middleman Hemant Gandhi, was arrested by the CBI on January 2.
The top excise officer had sought anticipatory bail after being named as an accused for allegedly receiving a bribe of Rs 60 lakh from two businessmen. It was alleged that the accused persons conducted a fake search of the importer’s office on Srivastava’s instructions.
Swamy gets HC relief against arrest till Jan 30.
Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy was on Friday granted protection from arrest till January 30 by the Delhi High Court in an FIR lodged against him for writing an alleged inflammatory article.
Justice M L Mehta granted anticipatory bail to Swamy on an undertaking by him that he would not write such articles in the future and issued notice to the Delhi Police for its response on the anticipatory bail plea. While hearing the plea, Justice Mehta observed: “We are a secular country and we should respect the system we have.... It is not a European country. We have a diversity and we should be proud of it. If you (Swamy) give an undertaking that you will not write anything based on the book, I will grant you relief.”
