Graft: CBI told to submit reply on discharge plea

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 22

A special CBI court has directed the investigating agency to file its reply on an application moved by Sanjay Dahuja to discharge him in a graft case.

Dahuja is facing charges in a graft case of Rs 40 lakh involving another businessman Aman Grover, the then DSP of EOW RC Meena and Sub-Inspector Surinder Kumar, who died recently. Earlier, Meena had filed an application to discharge him in the case.

Last week, Dahuja, who owns a dealership of Hyundai Motors at Chandigarh and Panchkula, had sought permission to visit Dubai from August 4 to 6 and Canada from August 7 to 15. Dahuja had pleaded that he had planned his visit to meet his son, who studies at Edmonton (Canada).

The special CBI court allowed Dahuja to visit Dubai and Canada with a direction to furnish a surety bond of Rs 50 lakh with an undertaking to return to India after the specified period and to appear before the court on the next date of hearing.

Meena, Surinder Kumar, Sanjay Dahuja, and Aman Grover, the owner of KLG Hotel, were arrested by the CBI on August 13, 2015, on graft charge. According to the CBI, all four were allegedly pressuring a Mohali family and had demanded a bribe of Rs 95 lakh from it for not arresting the members in a criminal case.

All four were allegedly caught taking Rs 40 lakh as the first installment of the bribe money.

The case will now come up for hearing on July 24.