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Warrant issued against Bina Ramani

Staff Reporter

Police told to produce her before the court on or before September 15

NEW DELHI: An Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) here on Monday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against socialite Bina Ramani for allegedly using forged documents to claim that she was the owner of "Once Upon A Time" restaurant-cum-bar, also known as Tamarind Court at Qutub Colonnade in South Delhi, and that she had a licence to serve liquor there.

It was at Tamarind Court that ramp model Jessica Lal was fatally shot at in the early hours of April 30, 1999, when she allegedly refused to serve liquor to Siddharth Vashishtha alias Manu Sharma saying that the bar had closed for the day.

Issuing the warrant, ACMM Kamini Lau directed the Hauz Khas police to arrest the accused and produce her before the court on or before September 15.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the police set up to investigate the destruction of evidence in the Jessica Lal murder case was also investigating the role of Ms. Ramani in it.

The police submitted that investigations had revealed that Ms. Ramani had forged the signature of Diwan Chand (since dead), alleged owner of the restaurant, to show to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) that she had taken the restaurant on rent from him. Ms. Ramani had allegedly also forged the signature of Diwan Chand to produce a no-objection certificate (NOC) from him allowing serving of liquor at the restaurant, the police said. The police further alleged that Ms. Ramani and her husband had also forged certain other documents mentioning that they had become owners of the restaurant.

She had obtained a licence from the MCD for running an eatery on the basis of forged documents and had used the same for registering the eatery with DCP Licensing, investigating officer of the case said. The ration card that she had submitted to the MCD and the DCP Licensing as her residential proof was also fake, the police alleged.

The Hauz Khas police had registered a case in the matter under Sections 120-B (conspiracy), 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (using a forged document as genuine) of the IPC earlier this year.

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