Delhi excise policy case: HC junks accused Sameer Mahendru's interim bail plea

The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed the interim bail plea of businessman Sameer Mahendru He sought medical bail on medical grounds He is one of the accused in the Delhi Excise policy money laundering case involving former Deputy CM Manish Sisodia Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma dismissed the plea after hearing arguments and considering the status report filed by the Enforcement Directorate EDThe high court had sought a response from the Enforcement Directorate ED which opposed the interim bail pleaThe trial court had dismissed his interim bail plea on October 6 giving certain directions to jail authoritiesSenior advocate Siddharth Luthra appeared for the petitioner and argued that the petitioner had fallen in the hospital and was on the floor for around 12 minutes Nobody was there to attend to him despite a direction from the court to provide a fulltime attendantThe trial court had also noticed from the CCTV footage pertaining to the fall of the applicant that after the above fall suffered by him during the intervening night of 0607092023 no attendant or official of the jail staff came to help him for a considerable duration of around 1213 minutesThis is not acceptable when the claim of jail authorities is that he is lying admitted therein under constant supervision and CCTV coverage for 24x7 hours the court had saidHence it is being directed that one fulltime time attendant be provided to take care of the applicant by rotation of their duties so that such the incident is not repeated the trial court had directed on October 6 2023He was arrested in this case on 28092022 and his regular bail application was dismissed by the trial court on 16022023 Thereafter he also approached the High Court for a grant of regular bail and his regular bail plea is still pending consideration before the High Court and is stated to be fixed for hearing on 05122023 the trial court had noted in the orderWhile opposing the bail plea it was contended by the Special Counsel and SPP for ED that all the prescribed facilities can very much be provided to the applicant in the jail dispensaryMI room and it is further their submission that the above fall by the applicant in jail was a self suffered fall to create a ground for his interim bailIt was further been submitted by them that earlier on 27042023 the Honble High Court had even permitted the applicant to visit his private doctor for treatment while directing him to surrender to custody under adequate security arrangements and he may continue to get treatment from his private doctor on an OPD basis thus there is no need to grant him interim bail in the caseThis 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