A Delhi court on Wednesday (August 7, 2024) issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking the agency’s reply on the bail applications of four co-owners of a basement of a coaching centre in Old Rajinder Nagar where three civil services aspirants drowned in floods after heavy rain last month.
Principal District and Sessions Judge, Anju Bajaj Chandna, directed the central probe agency to file its response by August 9.
The bail application was filed by Parvinder Singh, Tajinder Singh, Harvinder Singh and Sarbjit Singh.
The court also noted that it could not hear the bail applications since the copy of the FIR had not been brought before it.
The Public Prosecutor submitted in the court that the process of the transfer of case from the Delhi Police was not complete and the case had not been registered by the agency yet.
The CBI took over the matter after the Delhi High Court recently asked the central agency to investigate the same.
Counsel for the accused submitted in the court that the client had not attempted to evade the investigation and had voluntarily participated in the probe. He further said that the Sections imposed on the four accused are of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, and death by negligence “which are contradictory in nature”.
The accused were earlier denied bail by a lower court.
Published - August 08, 2024 02:41 am IST
