MCD man in CBI hands

By HT

Saturday September 1, 12:44 AM

A CITY court on Friday remanded a senior Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) official, arrested in connection with the multicrore land scam in the Capital, to seven days' CBI custody.

Special Judge S.K. Kaushik remanded Director of Slums S.N.S Sidhu, accused of involvement in the fraudulent allocation of plots meant for rehabilitation of slum-dwellers, to CBI custody till September 6. He was arrested by the agency last night.

Seeking 14 days' police remand of the accused in the Molarband land scam case, CBI's Senior Public Prosecutor Mohammad Shakeel argued that some files were missing, which could not be located in the office of Sidhu, and that these were necessary to take investigations further into the matter. Sidhu was to be confronted with accused Ashok Malhotra and Sumer Chand Garg and there is a need for recovery of documents relevant to the investigation, Shakeel said.

Opposing the remand of Sidhu, his counsel Ashutosh Lohia said the accused was co-operating with the CBI and attended its office as and when called and had been regularly interrogated by it from August 20. All the documents were already in the custody of the agency and it has also sealed the office and house of Sidhu. There was no justification of police remand and the CBI could also recover the missing files without further interrogation of him, Lohia said.

"After considering the submissions of both the CBI and the defence, I am of the considered view that the case appears to be still at an initial stage as the CBI could not lay its hand over some files which are relevant to the investigation. Seven days' police custody appears to be justified for further investigation of this case," Special Judge S.K. Kaushik said.

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