NSE telephone tapping case: Ex-Mumbai police chief Sanjay Pandey strikes courtroom for bail
3 min readBy PTI
NEW DELHI: Former Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Pandey has moved a Delhi courtroom searching for bail in a case of alleged telephone tapping of NSE staff, claiming that ED proceedings in opposition to him have been the results of political fallout.
The petition is more likely to come up for listening to on August 2 earlier than particular choose Sunena Sharma.
In his petition, Pandey stated he had investigated and prosecuted a number of high-profile and politically delicate circumstances, and claimed that the current proceedings have been “a political fallout of honest and sincere discharge of his duties as a senior police officer”.
“The instant case is clearly motivated by political considerations and it is also evident from the fact that an offence that allegedly occurred between 2009 and 2017 is being investigated in 2022 i.e., 13 years after its purported commencement and five years after its purported closure; and that too within a week of the applicant emitting his office,” he stated.
The software additionally stated that a large delay was triggered within the registration of the FIR, which raised critical doubts on the bona fides of the investigation.
“It appears that the applicant (Sanjay Pandey) is arraigned in the present case, for no fault of his own, and only to fulfil some political vendetta,” it stated.
The courtroom has issued a discover to the ED on the applying and sought its reply on August 2.
Pandey was arrested by the investigating company on July 19 within the case.
The ED arrested former NSE MD Chitra Ramakrishnan on July 14 following her interrogation after taking permission from the courtroom, the place she was produced from jail on an order handed by the choose earlier.
The choose had issued a manufacturing warrant in opposition to Ramakrishnan on a plea moved by the ED. After she was produced, the ED took permission from the courtroom to interrogate her.
Later, the company arrested Ramakrishnan on grounds of non-cooperation and once more produced her earlier than the courtroom, and urged for a nine-day custodial interrogation. The courtroom, nevertheless, had granted 4 days’ custody.
Ramakrishnan was arrested by the CBI in a separate case, and was in judicial custody.
NEW DELHI: Former Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Pandey has moved a Delhi courtroom searching for bail in a case of alleged telephone tapping of NSE staff, claiming that ED proceedings in opposition to him have been the results of political fallout.
The petition is more likely to come up for listening to on August 2 earlier than particular choose Sunena Sharma.
In his petition, Pandey stated he had investigated and prosecuted a number of high-profile and politically delicate circumstances, and claimed that the current proceedings have been “a political fallout of honest and sincere discharge of his duties as a senior police officer”.
“The instant case is clearly motivated by political considerations and it is also evident from the fact that an offence that allegedly occurred between 2009 and 2017 is being investigated in 2022 i.e., 13 years after its purported commencement and five years after its purported closure; and that too within a week of the applicant emitting his office,” he stated.
The software additionally stated that a large delay was triggered within the registration of the FIR, which raised critical doubts on the bona fides of the investigation.
“It appears that the applicant (Sanjay Pandey) is arraigned in the present case, for no fault of his own, and only to fulfil some political vendetta,” it stated.
The courtroom has issued a discover to the ED on the applying and sought its reply on August 2.
Pandey was arrested by the investigating company on July 19 within the case.
The ED arrested former NSE MD Chitra Ramakrishnan on July 14 following her interrogation after taking permission from the courtroom, the place she was produced from jail on an order handed by the choose earlier.
The choose had issued a manufacturing warrant in opposition to Ramakrishnan on a plea moved by the ED. After she was produced, the ED took permission from the courtroom to interrogate her.
Later, the company arrested Ramakrishnan on grounds of non-cooperation and once more produced her earlier than the courtroom, and urged for a nine-day custodial interrogation. The courtroom, nevertheless, had granted 4 days’ custody.
Ramakrishnan was arrested by the CBI in a separate case, and was in judicial custody.
