Former Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar, facing charges of acquiring fake graduation and law degrees, withdrew his bail application from a Sessions Court here on Tuesday, saying he would file a fresh plea after the expiry of his police remand. The court had earlier refused to grant him interim bail.
The Aam Aadmi Party leader, elected to the Delhi Assembly from the Tri Nagar constituency, was remanded in four-day police custody on Monday after the Delhi Police submitted that the accused needed to be taken to Bundelkhand University to ascertain more facts about his allegedly fabricated migration certificate.
Mr. Tomar’s counsel Harshit Jain told the court that he did not want to pursue the matter of bail at this stage during his client’s police custody. He sought the court’s permission to withdraw the bail application with the liberty to file a fresh plea before the Metropolitan Magistrate when the accused is produced after the expiry of police remand.
As the prosecution did not oppose Mr. Tomar’s plea, Additional Sessions Judge Vimal Kumar Yadav accepted the request and allowed withdrawal of the bail plea. “The application seeking grant of bail filed on behalf of applicant [Mr. Tomar] is dismissed as withdrawn with the liberty to file afresh,” the court said in its brief order.
In his bail application, Mr. Tomar had accused the Delhi Police of arresting him in violation of the procedure laid down under the law. The Sessions Court had on June 11 postponed hearing on the application for Tuesday, while refusing to grant him interim bail with the observation that it might complicate the matter.
