Four of his accomplices have secured bail as the investigating agency failed to file charge sheet against them within the stipulated time.
In a setback to CBI which is probing the alleged fake encounter of MBA student Ranbir Singh, four of his accomplices have secured bail as the investigating agency failed to file charge sheet against them within the stipulated time.
While hearing a bail application of Ram Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Shekhar Tyagi and Amit Bhatnagar yesterday, CBI Judicial Magistrate Anuradha Garg agreed to the arguments of defence counsels that the investigating agency had failed to file charge sheet against them within the 60 days of their arrest and so they should be released on bail.
The court later granted bail to them and asked each one of them to furnish personal bonds of Rs 25,000.
The court also directed the CBI to file a charge sheet against the four accused at the earliest.
After the preliminary investigations, CBI had claimed that Singh was a criminal and had come here with the intention of robbery. It also said Singh and his accomplices snatched the service revolver of a sub-inspector on July 3 this year.
On the basis of its findings, CBI arrested Ram Kumar and Ashok Kumar, residents of district Baghpat and Tyagi and Bhatnagar, residents of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh in August.
The CBI also arrested seven police personnel, who were allegedly involved in the encounter of Singh.
The alleged encounter took place on July 3 during president Pratibha Patil's visit when sub-inspector GD Bhatt stopped Singh and others for routine checking. The police claimed that the youths instead snatched his revolver and fled towards the jungles of Ladpur where 22-year-old Singh was shot dead.
But the postmortem report contradicted the police claims which revealed that Singh was shot dead from a close range and was even tortured before his death.
Later bowing under pressure from various quarters, chief minister Ramesh Pokhairal Nishank recommended for a CBI probe into the case.
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