Special CBI court rejects Anil Deshmukh's plea seeking default bail

A special CBI court here on Monday rejected former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukhs plea seeking default bail in a corruption case registered against him by the Central Bureau of InvestigationThe court also rejected the pleas of two other accused in the case Sanjeev Palande Deshmukhs former personal secretary and Kundan Shinde Deshmukhs former personal assistantThe applications for default bail are hereby rejected special CBI court Judge S H Gwalani saidDeshmukh Palande and Shinde sought default bail on the ground that the CBI had not submitted its charge sheet within the 60day mandated period and that the charge sheet filed by the agency was incompleteSo with this SC postponing the decision we still do not know Is the swearingin of the government constitutional is the speaker election valid the sworn in CMampother rebel MLAs disqualified or not is this faction legally tenable or notWe shall wait country is watchingmdash Priyanka Chaturvedi priyankac19 July 11 2022The pleas also claimed the CBI had not submitted relevant documents along with the charge sheet and that those were submitted after the mandated time periodAlso read SC allows jailed NCP MLAs Malik and Deshmukh to participate in floor testAs per section 173 of the Criminal Procedure Code the charge sheet in a case ought to be filed within 60 days from the arrest of the accused If not done then the accused can seek default bailThe CBI had opposed the pleas and argued that it submitted the charge sheet in the mandated time periodFormer Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh alleged in March 2021 that NCP leader Deshmukh who was then the states home minister had given a target to police officers to collect Rs 100 crore per month from restaurants and bars in the cityLater the HC in April last year while hearing a petition filed by an advocate directed the CBI to carry out a preliminary inquiryThe CBI based on its inquiry registered an FIR against Deshmukh and his associates on charges of corruption and misuse of official powerBased on the CBIs FIR the Enforcement Directorate ED had also lodged a case of money laundering against the NCP leaderThe ED arrested Deshmukh in November 2021 and he is in judicial custody at presentDeshmukh was arrested by the CBI in the corruption case lodged by it in April this year He is currently in judicial custody in that case alsoThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever