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Saradha scam: Nalini Chidambaram granted anticipatory bill by Madras HC

Relief for Nalini Chidambaram.

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A day after the CBI filed a chargesheet against Nalini Chidambaram alleging she had received Rs 1.4 crore from Saradha group of companies, involved in a chit fund scam in West Bengal, she has been granted four weeks of interim anticipatory bail by Madras High Court on Saturday. This comes as relief to the lawyer, who is wife of former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram. 

In a special sitting constituted to hear the anticipatory bail application moved by Nalini, Justice GK Illanthiraiyan passed the interim order granting four weeks interim bail to her and directed her to surrender before the chief judicial magistrate, to furnish sureties and thereafter, approach the jurisdictional court concerned to obtain regular anticipatory bail.

In her petition, Nalini alleged that the central government has been misusing the central agencies by filing false cases against the members of Chidambaram's family for the last four years motivated by political vendetta. "The present chargesheet is the latest in the series of false cases filed against the family. In course of my profession, I received fees from Saradha Realty Limited on behalf of Manoranjana Sinh in connection with Positive TV which was valued at Rs 200 crores," she said.

Notably, her name does not figure in the previous CBI chargesheets against the proprietor of the Saradha group Sudipto Sen and his companies in connection with the alleged chit fund scam, she said.

On January 11, CBI filed sixth supplementary chargesheet before the additional chief judicial magistrate, Alipur for alleged offences under sections 120B, 420, 406, 409 of the IPC, counsel for Nalini said.

Pointing out that the CBI has already recorded in an earlier supplementary chargesheet that Rs 1.4 crore was paid to the petitioner towards her legal expenses, she contended that there cannot be a change in stand by CBI by changing the colour of the payment from a legal fee to bribe money.

She further argued that it is settled law that after registration of an FIR and till the time of filing chargesheet, if a person is not arrested, then he/she needs not to be subjected to custodial investigation. The person can appear before the court concerned after receipt of summons, she added.

 

 

 

 

 

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