Aurangabad: The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the special leave petition (SLP) filed by former state minister Suresh Jain, an accused in the multi-crore housing scam in Jalgaon.
Jain was seeking bail on the grounds that the prosecution has not sought sanction from the government to prosecute him and the issue has not yet been processed against him and that the chargesheet, though filed within the stipulated time, cannot be called a chargesheet in the eyes of the law.
Dismissing Jain’s petition, the SC bench observed that “once a chargesheet is filed within the stipulated time, the question of grant of default bail or statutory bail does not arise.’’
Jain, who was arrested in March 2012 for his involvement in the Rs 169-crore Jalgaon housing scam, is still being treated at St George Hospital in Mumbai for the last 11 months. He is under judicial remand and has not spent a single day in prison since his arrest, said Pravin Chavan, the special public prosecutor appointed by the state government for the case.
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Jain was seeking bail on the grounds that the prosecution has not sought sanction from the government to prosecute him and the issue has not yet been processed against him and that the chargesheet, though filed within the stipulated time, cannot be called a chargesheet in the eyes of the law.
Dismissing Jain’s petition, the SC bench observed that “once a chargesheet is filed within the stipulated time, the question of grant of default bail or statutory bail does not arise.’’
Jain, who was arrested in March 2012 for his involvement in the Rs 169-crore Jalgaon housing scam, is still being treated at St George Hospital in Mumbai for the last 11 months. He is under judicial remand and has not spent a single day in prison since his arrest, said Pravin Chavan, the special public prosecutor appointed by the state government for the case.
COURTESY:
Syed Rizwanullah TNN
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