RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, April 11: The Jharkhand High Court today granted bail to one terror funding case accused while reserving its judgement in the matter of bail of two others and fixed the date of judgement on April 18.
A division bench comprising Justices Rangon Mukhopadhyay and Rajesh Shankar, while hearing the case granted bail to Mahesh Agrawal, managing director of Adhunik Power and Natural Resources Private Limited. The NIA had arrested him from his residence in Salt Lake, Kolkata on January 18 after the high court rejected his anticipatory bail petition.
Agrawal, who is lodged in Birsa Munda Central Jail, had knocked on the door of the high court after the NIA court on February 26 rejected his bail application.
The two other terror funding accused whose bail applications are reserved for judgement on April 18 are Amit Agrawal alias Sonu Agrawal and Vineet Agrawal. They have reached the Jharkhand High Court via NIA court after the Supreme Court gave them temporary immunity against arrest to pursue their legal battle for justice.
The Supreme Court order had come on February 25 after a division bench of the apex court comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Bela M Trivedi heard their special leave petitions against a Jharkhand High Court order given on January 18 this year by which their petitions for quashing the non-bailable warrant of arrest issued from the NIA court against them were dismissed.
They had moved an SLP saying that the court did not consider vital points while delivering its judgment.
The apex court entertained their SLP and gave them the liberty to move applications for cancellation of their non-bailable warrants of arrest and procuring bail before the trial court in Jharkhand giving him protection against arrest for 30 days to get judicial remedy. The apex court while giving them protection against arrest for a limited period directed the trial court for consideration and decision on their application within a week after filing of the application.
