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Bail plea of MPSC scam accused rejected, 17 remanded to JC
Mumbai, Feb 07: A sessions court has rejected the bail plea of Avinash Sanas, former secretary to a state minister and prime accused in the multi-crore Maharashtra public service commission scam while remanding him and 16 others to judicial custody till February 20.
Mumbai, Feb 07: A sessions court has rejected the bail plea of Avinash Sanas, former secretary to a state minister and prime accused in the multi-crore Maharashtra public service commission scam while remanding him and 16
others to judicial custody till February 20.
The bail plea was rejected yesterday by designated judge P N Deshmukh who observed that prima facie a case was made out against the accused. This is for the second time his bail plea has been turned down.
The judge agreed with prosecutor S K Memon that there had been no change in the circumstances since the arrest of the accused and granting bail at this stage would hamper probe.
Seventeen other accused are in judicial custody. They are facing the charge of accepting bribes from 399 students, who appeared in the 1999 examination conducted by MPSC. Their answer papers were substituted with duplicate ones and each of them paid Rs three lakh for this job.
Prime accused and former chairman of MPSC, S D Karnik was released on bail in November by Mumbai high court. The special court, on January 28, rejected the bail plea of another former MPSC chairman P D Vani.
One of the accused had voluntarily confessed before a magistrate about the role played by him and others in the Rs 15 crore scam. Sudhakar Sarode, controller of examination in MPSC, revealed the entire conspiracy and the complicity of Karnik and Vani.
The bail plea was rejected yesterday by designated judge P N Deshmukh who observed that prima facie a case was made out against the accused. This is for the second time his bail plea has been turned down.
The judge agreed with prosecutor S K Memon that there had been no change in the circumstances since the arrest of the accused and granting bail at this stage would hamper probe.
Seventeen other accused are in judicial custody. They are facing the charge of accepting bribes from 399 students, who appeared in the 1999 examination conducted by MPSC. Their answer papers were substituted with duplicate ones and each of them paid Rs three lakh for this job.
Prime accused and former chairman of MPSC, S D Karnik was released on bail in November by Mumbai high court. The special court, on January 28, rejected the bail plea of another former MPSC chairman P D Vani.
One of the accused had voluntarily confessed before a magistrate about the role played by him and others in the Rs 15 crore scam. Sudhakar Sarode, controller of examination in MPSC, revealed the entire conspiracy and the complicity of Karnik and Vani.
Bureau Report