NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has permitted A.E. Pinto, a London-based Brazilian businessman who is one of the accused in the Rs.133-crore urea scam case, to visit the British capital to meet his family members and attend to his wife who is suffering from cancer.

Justice S.K. Aggarwal of the High Court allowed Pinto's plea subject to furnishing of two bank guarantees of Rs.20 lakhs each by him. Mr. Justice Aggarwal gave him time till September 15 to arrange the bank guarantees.

"Arrange the bank guarantees and you (the accused) go off," Mr. Justice Aggarwal told counsel for Pinto.

Counsel for the accused also gave an undertaking that his client would close the examination of his defence witnesses and not cross-examine them.

He said Pinto would not dispute his identity given out by the defence witnesses during their evidence.

He further stated that Pinto would be represented by his counsel in the trial of the case and would appear before the trial court as and when required by it.

The trial of the case is going on in the court of the Special Judge for CBI cases, A.K. Garg, at the Tis Hazari courts here.

There are nine accused in the case. They are Prakash Chandra Yadav, son of the former Union Minister Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav; Tankay Alankus, chairman and chief executive of the Turkish company, Messrs Karsan Limited, whom the National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) had given the contract to supply two lakh tonnes of urea; Sambasiva Rao; B. Sanjeeva Rao, a close relative of the former Prime Minister late P.V. Narasimha Rao; Malleshan Gaud; A.E. Pinto; C.K. Ramakrishnan, former managing director of the NFL; Dilbagh Singh Kanwar, former executive director, NFL; and Cihan Karanci, vice-president of the Turkish company.

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