The bail plea of two Supreme Court employees arrested for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 25,000, is likely to be heard by a Delhi court.
The bail plea of two Supreme Court employees and another accused, arrested by the CBI for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 25,000 from an NRI, is likely to be heard by a Delhi court on Friday.
The accused had allegedly taken the bribe from the NRI for listing an appeal related to his wife's death for an early hearing.
Additional sessions judge OP Saini, who had on Thursday sent them to judicial custody for 14 days after they were produced on the conclusion a day-long custodial interrogation, listed the bail applications for tomorrow.
C Perumal and K S Badrinath, an upper divisional clerk and assistant grade employee, respectively, in the Supreme Court registry, and another accused, K M Singh, were arrested on the night of February 9 by CBI sleuths for demanding money from Kunal Saha, a US-based AIDS researcher.
Earlier, the CBI was allowed to quiz them for a day on the ground that there could be more public servants involved in the case.
The CBI has invoked the IPC Section 120 B relating to the criminal conspiracy and the Section 7 of Prevention of Corruption Act dealing with illegal gratification against them, alleging they had demanded Rs 75,000 for listing Saha's appeal against a High Court order for early hearing in the apex court.
Saha had filed an appeal against Calcutta High Court's order acquitting the doctors allegedly responsible for death of his US-based wife Anuradha Saha in 1998, the CBI said.
A trial court had held the doctors guilty in the case in 2002 but the High Court had acquitted them in 2004, he said.
Saha, who came to India from Ohio in the US on January 29, went on an indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar here on February 6, demanding early hearing into an appeal before the Supreme Court filed against the High Court's order.
He, however, filed a complaint with the CBI's Anti-Corruption Branch yesterday alleging that the three accused were demanding money from him for the purpose.
Singh, allegedly acting as conduit for the two SC employees, was arrested by the CBI from a hostel at K G Marg. The other two accused were also arrested later.
The CBI also conducted searches at the residences of the accused and claimed to have recovered Rs 1.67 lakh cash and gold worth Rs 6.34 lakh from them.
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