SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, Aug 25: Ranchi-based news channel News11 Bharat head Arup Chatterjee, who is lodged in Dhanbad jail for the last 66 days, on Thursday got bail in one of the four-year-old cheating cases.
The court of district and session judge Dhanbad Prabhakar Singh today after hearing the plea of senior lawyer Shahnawaz granted bail to Chatterjee.
Earlier on July 21, the court of chief judicial magistrate (CJM) had rejected his bail petition. After that, he appealed in the court of the district session judge.
However, despite getting bail, Arup Chatterjee will remain in jail in connection with three other charges of cheating and deceiving cases filed in different police stations of Dhanbad and West Bengal.
Arup Chatterjee has been given bail in a four-year-old case. Loyabad resident Manoj Pandit had lodged the FIR against him and Rakesh Sinha in Putki police station in 2018 for cheating Rs 11 lakh.
Arup Chatterjee had opened Care Vision Group of Companies and after collecting money from investors, he shut down the office at Bank More. Manoj Pandit was the agent of his company.
Arup Chatterjee, a resident of Bhuli Township of Dhanbad, is also facing a case lodged by Classic Automobile Tata Motor’s showroom in Shastri Nagar, Rajendra Prasad. He had complained to Bank More police station in 2014 that Arup Chatterjee got the delivery of a Safari car worth Rs 11,10, 605 from his showroom and did not pay the money.
Two other cases of cheating in the name of a chit fund company are also pending against him in Dhanbad court.
The News11 channel head has been in Dhanbad since June 19, 2022, after Dhanbad police arrested him from an apartment in Ranchi in connection with extortion and blackmailing coal trader Rakesh Ojha.
Meanwhile, the Anti-corruption wing of CBI Dhanbad today appealed in the court of CBI special judge Abhishek Srivastava seeking permission for interrogation of Arup Chatterjee.
Jharkhand High Court had on May 11, 2015, ordered CBI to take over all cheating cases against Arup Chatterjee filed in different police stations of Jharkhand – Bengal.
