Bail denied to top medical official

By IANS
Monday, May 3, 2010

NEW DELHI - A city court Monday dismissed the bail plea of Medical Council of India (MCI) president Ketan Desai who has been accused of accepting a bribe of Rs.2 crore for granting recognition to a private medical college in Punjab.

“Considering the nature of the offence and the fact that the probe is still at an initial stage, both bail applications are dismissed,” Additional Sessions Judge O.P. Saini said while denying bail to Desai and J.P. Singh, an alleged middleman in the case.

The court accepted the plea of the CBI prosecutor that the accused are influential and capable of influencing witnesses who came forward to inform the probe agency about them.

“No witness would come forward if the accused are granted bail at this stage,” he said.

“I cannot disclose names of witnesses as they are facing threat from different quarters. Some evidence suggests that hawala transactions have also been conducted,” the prosecutor added.

Senior advocate Sidharth Luthra, counsel for Desai, said there was no point in keeping the accused in jail as the investigation was over.

“The alleged bribe of Rs.2 crore was not recovered from Desai. Moreover, he was not the sole authority to grant recognition to the medical college in question,” he argued.

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dock24
June 8, 2010: 10:22 am

Hi ,it is so weird that a entire family who knew all about a women and her daughter but gave the wrong impression to her in that way that any person can judge and accept as true the intention was so dangerous that till now that women who had not a soul next to her excluding her daughter is in mental trauma and terror of the threats and she was the only earning person and was looking after her daughter and the family was only with her for there own desires and took good advantage by giving her false promises of marriage and familiarizing each person as his other half and daughter as his own and concerning to marriage until the end the excuses were his career as he wasn’t satisfied with the job and was changing it frequently as he gets satisfying and stable job with good wages he without delay would marry her so that he can take care of both mother and daughter and he never wanted his future wife to work as she was a working women and entire family took her in confidence this carried on till 3years .The guy used her mentally, physically and the main purpose was financially. Now when the purpose got solved the entire family dragged her out from there house and was embarrassed to recognize her women was out of breath watching this behaviour and she got case registered as rape. The guy in behind the bar from last 3months but she says when she has all the evidence to prove he promised her for marriage and she had been getting threats from the family so why the law lord of Delhi high court is taking favour of the accused and why is he called as innocent in the courtyard when giving the proof of there threats why release the guy and for what ?that is a big torture for her when she is asking for protection till her statement gets recorded in the courtyard why law lord is pointing him as innocent . Why the law lord cannot wait? Why is he ignoring the things? Why is he feeling sorry for the guy? Why is he not paying attention towards the women victim what she wants to say? And why is he not taking her words seriously? And sitting ready to grant bail. This can put her and her daughter in danger. She is listening to the abusive words and getting insulted every second in the court room from the accused defender and honourable judge showing sympathy towards the accused, you all have no idea what that women must be going through this is not justified every 2nd day the date is extended so that itself it a torture and then she is disrespected and so much, and in mental trauma, again the date got extended for one day ,Is this case to give her more pain and make her suffer more. If Law lord will show sympathy in favour of accused what will victim go through? Putting mother and daughter life on risk the accused will be granted bail just because he is been punished enough as he is in the jail from last 3months Is he comparing 3months with her 3years . For entire family 3years were a purpose to misuse her and now ashamed to accept her. But Why?? Is she not from our society and no one is there to stand by her, but think about the women and her daughter. Should we salute the law lord and police saying we are not aware of the threat letter the photocopy of the letter is with the women along the signature and stamp of the police officer? Should the judiciary grant a bail or wait till the victim women give her statement in the court??

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