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Thursday, Jul 06, 2006

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Duping case: bail plea of four opposed

Staff Reporter

High courtround-up They are accused of collecting money for housing sites that were not handed over

BANGALORE: The State Government on Wednesday opposed the anticipatory bail application by four of the 12 accused by the Bangalore police of having duped more than 160 scientists of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) of at least Rs. 3.28 crore by promising them housing sites.

Layout

In its statement of objections, the Government said some of the office-bearers of a house-building cooperative society, which had promised to develop a layout at Thanisandra, had collected Rs. 3 lakh from each of the 160 scientists.

The society, instead of handing over the layout to the scientists, gave it to a private firm.

Appearing for the Government, State Public Prosecutor S. Dore Raju opposed the bail application of four of the accused, saying that they had not cooperated with the police during the investigation and had been absconding for two years. Bail, he said, should not be given to criminals who had blatantly cheated government employees, falsified accounts and forged records.

Those seeking bail were either directors or office-bearers of the society.

Justice Ajit Gunjal granted conditional bail.

Dismissed

A Division Bench comprising Justice R. Gururajan and Justice Jawad Rahim on Wednesday dismissed a habeas corpus petition by Jayanti Khemka seeking a direction to the Bangalore police to produce her husband, Munish.

The court, during earlier hearings, had been told that Munish was sent on to the United States and was expected to return in the second week of August.

Both Munish and Jayanti had met through the Internet and got married.

They had come to Bangalore where Munish was offered a job. She filed a habeas corpus petition after Munish went to the U.S.

When the matter came up on Wednesday, Munish's employer, who was present in the court, said Munish had gone on a business visa and he would have to come back in the second week of August.

The address of Munish in the U.S. was furnished to the court, which asked the police to make a note of it.

The Bench observed that Munish was not under illegal detention and that the habeas corpus petition was not maintainable.

It, however, gave liberty to Ms. Jayanti to file appropriate applications in the court, if she so desired.

Parking

The Karnataka High Court has said that a society could restrict haphazard parking of vehicles in an apartment or residential block but that the owner of the parking lot had the liberty to make use of his reserved parking plot to either park two-wheelers or four-wheelers.

The court said the vehicles in such reserved lots must be parked in such a manner that they did not obstruct the parking of other vehicles in the area.

Justice K.L. Manjunath passed these orders on a regular first appeal in which a company had contested the claim of a building association asking it remove a partition it had put up adjacent to two apartments it had bought in the building.

The company had bought three apartments and also three parking lots in the basement. While the flats were being used as an office, it permitted its employees to park their two-wheelers in the basement in its car park.

The association said only cars (four-wheelers) could be parked in the car park and not two-wheelers.

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