New Delhi, May 06: The Delhi High Court today issued notice to the CBI on the bail application of sacked DDA vice-chairman Subhash Sharma, who is currently in judicial custody in connection with DDA scam cases. Justice R C Chopra, who issued the notice to the CBI, posted the matter for May 16 when the bail plea of co-accused and suspended DDA director (land and development) Anand Mohan Sharan would come up for hearing. The court has already directed the investigating officer of the case to be present before it along with the case diary on that date.

Sharma, whose bail application was rejected by special judge Prem Kumar on April 25, sought his release on bail on the grounds that the investigation was already complete and that he was no longer required for investigation.

Sharma was named an accused in the CBI FIR registered on March 26 in connection with the alleged bribe given by modern school society to one Ashok Kapoor, PA to former DDA vice-chairman P K Ghosh while Sharan, a 1990 batch IAS officer, was arrested on March 28 after the agency recovered Rs 36 lakh in cash in a raid at his residence a day before.

Other accused in the case are: Businessman Dharam Bir Khattar, former DDA director (land) Jagdish Chander, former commissioner (planning) Vijay Risbud, DLF representative Ajay Khanna, Ansal Buildwell's R K Gogia, Ravinder Taneja and Mukesh Saini (private person).

CBI has registered four cases in connection with the DDA scam and the names of Sharma and Khattar figured in all the four.

Bureau Report