A court here on Thursday refused to grant interim bail to former Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar in the fake degrees case.
Additional Sessions Judge Sanjeev Jain rejected the plea when the counsel for Mr. Tomar, Ramesh Gupta, requested him to enlarge the former Minister on interim bail keeping in view the prosecution stand that it was not in a position to assist the court in the hearing. The court was hearing Mr. Tomar’s plea for regular bail in the case.
The prosecution expressed its inability to assist the court, submitting that the case file was with the investigating officer of the case and he was out of town along with the accused in connection with investigation of the case.
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Mr. Gupta then requested the court to grant interim bail to Mr. Tomar in view of the Allahabad HC and SC judgments, which state that the court should grant interim bail to the accused if the prosecution seeks adjournment of hearing on a bail application.
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Mr. Gupta also questioned the prosecution submission that the case file was not with it, informing the court that according to the rule, three copies of a case file should be created and one of them should remain with the Assistant Commissioner of Police overseeing the investigation. Of the remaining two copies, one is made available to the investigating officer and the other is kept in the Criminal Records Room, he added.
However, the Judge refused to accept the interim bail plea, saying that “order for interim bail will further complicate the matter.” He adjourned the hearing on the regular bail application for June 16. Mr. Tomar’s police custody ends on Friday.
The matter was adjourned for hearing on June 16. The former Minister’s police custody ends on Friday