Murder accused seeks bail to repay PNB crop loan
Saeed.Khan@timesgroup.com 09.06.2018
Ahmedabad
: The Punjab National Bank, which is reeling under ₹11,400-crore fraud by diamond merchant Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi, has got a sincere borrower, that too in a prisoner.
Bijalbhai Dabhi, incarcerated in a murder case for last four years in a sub-jail in Limbdi, about 100km from here, has obtained temporary bail from Gujarat high court on Thursday to repay the crop loan of ₹80,000 to PNB his family had taken last year.
The 55-year-old prisoner applied for bail before a Surendranagar district court earlier this year after his family received a notice from the bank asking for repayment of the amount. But he did not get bail from the district court and he knocked on the HC's door.
According to Dabhi’s advocate Hardik Kothari, Dabhi was imprisoned in January 2014 in connection with a murder case. He is an undertrial prisoner. In 2017, his family in Moti Morsal village in Surendranagar district obtained a crop loan from PNB, and they received a notice for repayment of ₹80,000 from the bank. Dabhi requested the lower court to release him on bail for 30 days so that he could make financial arrangement to repay the debt.
The district court denied bail to Dabhi on prosecution’s argument that there are other family members who could take care of the issue.
When the issue came before the HC, Justice A Y Kogje inquired whether the prisoner was punctual in returning to jail in time whenever he was granted temporary bail in the past. The answer was in affirmative.
The HC ordered jail authorities on Thursday to release Dabhi on bail for seven days on furnishing a personal bond of ₹5,000.
ED moves court against Nirav Modi, kin
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate moved the special Prevention of Money Laundering Act court on Friday seeking cognisance of the chargesheet submitted in the Rs 6,500 crore money laundering case involving businessman Nirav Modi. Additionally, the agency sought issuance of non-bailable warrants against Modi, his brother, father, sister and brother-in-law, among others. Special judge M S Azmi is likely to pronounce the order on Tuesday.
ED counsel Hiten Venegaonkar told the court that 14 individuals and 15 companies have been named in the document submitted last month. He said while three accused — Punjab National Bank retired deputy manager Gokulnath Shetty, Modi-owned Firestar Diamonds vice-president Shyamsunder Wadhwa, and the authorised signatory for Nirav Modi’s firms, Hemant Bhatt, were in custody in the case. TNN
Saeed.Khan@timesgroup.com 09.06.2018
Ahmedabad
: The Punjab National Bank, which is reeling under ₹11,400-crore fraud by diamond merchant Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi, has got a sincere borrower, that too in a prisoner.
Bijalbhai Dabhi, incarcerated in a murder case for last four years in a sub-jail in Limbdi, about 100km from here, has obtained temporary bail from Gujarat high court on Thursday to repay the crop loan of ₹80,000 to PNB his family had taken last year.
The 55-year-old prisoner applied for bail before a Surendranagar district court earlier this year after his family received a notice from the bank asking for repayment of the amount. But he did not get bail from the district court and he knocked on the HC's door.
According to Dabhi’s advocate Hardik Kothari, Dabhi was imprisoned in January 2014 in connection with a murder case. He is an undertrial prisoner. In 2017, his family in Moti Morsal village in Surendranagar district obtained a crop loan from PNB, and they received a notice for repayment of ₹80,000 from the bank. Dabhi requested the lower court to release him on bail for 30 days so that he could make financial arrangement to repay the debt.
The district court denied bail to Dabhi on prosecution’s argument that there are other family members who could take care of the issue.
When the issue came before the HC, Justice A Y Kogje inquired whether the prisoner was punctual in returning to jail in time whenever he was granted temporary bail in the past. The answer was in affirmative.
The HC ordered jail authorities on Thursday to release Dabhi on bail for seven days on furnishing a personal bond of ₹5,000.
ED moves court against Nirav Modi, kin
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate moved the special Prevention of Money Laundering Act court on Friday seeking cognisance of the chargesheet submitted in the Rs 6,500 crore money laundering case involving businessman Nirav Modi. Additionally, the agency sought issuance of non-bailable warrants against Modi, his brother, father, sister and brother-in-law, among others. Special judge M S Azmi is likely to pronounce the order on Tuesday.
ED counsel Hiten Venegaonkar told the court that 14 individuals and 15 companies have been named in the document submitted last month. He said while three accused — Punjab National Bank retired deputy manager Gokulnath Shetty, Modi-owned Firestar Diamonds vice-president Shyamsunder Wadhwa, and the authorised signatory for Nirav Modi’s firms, Hemant Bhatt, were in custody in the case. TNN
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