New Delhi: A Delhi court today transferred
the case relating to top Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy to the
district judge for forwarding it to a sessions judge for
further proceedings.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja sent the case
to the district judge as Ghandy, a Central Committee member of
banned CPI (Maoist), has been chargesheeted under the various
provisions of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act that are
exclusively triable by a sessions court.
The court directed that 63-year-old Ghandy be produced
before the district judge on April 15.
The court undertook the committal (transfer) proceedings
as the Delhi police provided the accused copies of the CD/DVDs
purportedly showing him addressing armed Maoist cadres in
Nepal.
It had on April 3 asked the Special Cell of the Delhi
police, which investigated the case against Ghandy, to give
him the copies as these were relied upon by the prosecuting
agency as evidence against him.
Ghandy, arrested on September 20 last year, is now in
judicial custody.
The city police had on February 19 filed a chargesheet
against Ghandy, accusing him of trying to set up a network of
the banned outfit here. He was charged under Unlawful
Activities (Prevention) Act, besides being booked under IPC
relating to cheating, forgery and impersonation.
In its over 700-page chargesheet, the police had alleged
Ghandy, along with his associates, was trying to build a
`Maoist corridor` in the national capital.
His associate Arvind Joshi, who was later arrested from
Kanpur, is in judicial custody here.
-PTI
