In major relief to businessman and accused Anil Vedmehta, the Bombay High Court set aside the proclamation order of the special MCOCA court on Saturday, and ordered that his property be deattached. Vedmehta was an absconding accused in IAS officer Radheshyam Mopalwar’s extortion case registered by the police in 2017, during the tenure of Param Bir Singh as Thane city police commissioner.

Vedmehta’s lawyer Ali Kaashif Khan Deshmukh, said this is the first landmark judgment by the HC in a MCOCA case to set aside a proclamation order on technical grounds. Earlier this month, Vedmehta who is currently in California, filed a complaint with the Santacruz police station levelling serious allegations against Singh and Mopalwar for allegedly booking him in a false extortion case.