The petition, filed through counsel D Mahesh Babu, is to come up before Justice D K Jain tomorrow.

An employee of Karsan's Indian agent Sambasiva Rao, Goud was sent to judicial custody on January 12, 1998 when he appeared before a Delhi court.

He was not arrested with the other Indian accused in the case in June-July 1996 as his name was not there in the FIR.

The trial court had already rejected his three bail applications early this year.

Earlier also he had moved the High Court but his plea was rejected. Following this, Goud filed a special leave petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court which was dismissed in April this year.

While dismissing Goud's SLP, the Apex court had observed, ``If fresh ground is made out in the future, the petitioner would be at liberty to apply for bail to the court of the first instance to beginwith.''

After rejection of the SLP, he approached special Judge V B Gupta in July, a few days before ``arguments on charge'' began in the case. But yet again he was denied bail.

Five other Indian accused in the case -- former premier Narasimha Rao's kin Sanjeeva Rao, Sambasiva Rao, former NFL managing director C K Ramakrishnan, its executive director D S Kanwar and former Union Fertiliser Minister R L S Yadav's son Prakash Chandra Yadav were arrested in June-July 1996.

The agency had recorded Goud's statement in June 1996 before arresting these accused. However, they were released on bail as the prosecuting agency could not file the chargesheet within the statutory period of three months.

CBI had filed chargesheet in the case on December 26 last year.

Besides Goud, two top Karsan executives -- Tunacy Alankus and Cihan Karanci are also in judicial custody following their extradition from Switzerland in October 1997.