2G scam: HC to resume hearing on corporate bosses’ bail plea on Tuesday

Besides Sorabji,a battery of senior defence lawyers,Mukul Rohatgi,K T S Tulsi,Ranjit Kumar,Rajeev Nayar,N K Kaul,assailed the dismissal of the bail plea of the accused by the special CBI judge saying “he gravely erred in terming the case as of the highest magnitude as it is the punishment and not the amount involved that decides the same.”

Unitech Wireless (Tamil Nadu) Ltd Managing Director Sanjay Chandra and Group MD of Reliance ADAG Gautam Doshi,co-promoter of Swan Telecom Vinod Goenka and Reliance ADAG’s Surender Pipara and Hari Nair,who were not arrested by CBI during the investigation,were sent to jail on Wednesday.

Consequently,they had during the day immediately moved the High Court for grant of bail which listed the matter for hearing on Thursday.

Initiating the proceedings which lasted for nearly four hours,Tulsi,appearing for Sanjay Chandra of Unitech,told Justice Ajit Bharihoke that in the chargesheet,there were no specific allegations against his client.

“The Special Judge had tarred everybody with same brush.

There are specific allegations against Swan Telecom like the money trail of around Rs 215 crore. So far as I am concerned,there is no specific allegation against me and the Unitech,” Tulsi said.

Moreover,Sanjay Chandra was neither a MD,nor a Director or a shareholder in Unitech Wireless (Tamil Nadu) Ltd,a company which is an accused in the chargesheet,he said,clarifying that in fact,he was MD of the Unitech Ltd which was not even named as accused.

“His net worth is of Rs 5,000 crore and he cannot flee from the country as he has a fixed abode here,” he said.

Tulsi also cited a Delhi High Court judgement saying “we are covered by the judgement which says that courts,invariably,grant bail in such cases.”

There was no illegality involved if it was alleged that the company was “ineligible” for the grant of UAS Licenses.

Dismissing the bail plea,the special court said “a bare perusal of the facts of the case and the allegations in the chargesheet make it out a case of the highest magnitude and gravity and there is enough incriminating material on record against the accused.”

The five top honchos spent their night like other prisoners as they were not provided any special treatment.

In contrast to their lavish lifestyle,all five spent their night in a 90 square feet Tihar prison cell.

“They had the usual prison food — dal,roti,sabzi and chawal — and after that they were sent to their respective cells. They share cells with other inmates as the jail is already overcrowded. They slept on the floor as their co-inmates do,” a jail official said.

All of the five woke up early in the morning and were present for the head count.