HC slams police for not acting against Kanda

Rejecting an application for granting anticipatory bail to former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda,the Delhi High Court on Friday pulled up Delhi Police for delaying the investigation and making no serious attempt to arrest him.

Rejecting an application for granting anticipatory bail to former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda,the Delhi High Court on Friday pulled up Delhi Police for delaying the investigation and making no serious attempt to arrest him.

This application appears to have been filed only to bring on record from the side of the police that the accused has gone underground and the police is unable to arrest him so that investigation gets delayed. This application is dismissed, Justice P K Bhasin said.

The court said the vakalatnama,executed by Kanda on August 13,had been identified by a lawyer six days before it was signed by the accused. The court said if Kanda himself had signed the vakalatnama then there was no justification for his brother,Govind Kumar,filing the bail plea on his behalf without authorisation.

Justice Bhasin observed that though the FIR in the case was registered on August 5 and co-accused Aruna Chadha was arrested on August 7,police merely issued a notice to Kanda to join the investigation. Because of all these actions of the police,the concerned accused appears to be sitting comfortably somewhere… he said.

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