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Bail pleas rejected

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The anticipatory bail petitions by Shardaben Katara, wife of Bharatiya Janata Party MP Babubhai Katara who is facing a probe in a human trafficking case, and her son were rejected by a city court here on Wednesday.

Dismissing the bail pleas, Additional Sessions Judge V.K. Bansal said the probe was at a very early stage.

Earlier, Katara's lawyer argued that Shardaben and her son had no role in the case and they were apprehensive that they would be arrested simply because of their relationship with the prime accused Katara, who is already in police custody. The prosecution lawyer, however, said the police have not even sent notices to the applicants.

Asked about the complicity of the applicants in the case, the police told the court that they withdrew Rs. 7 lakh from the bank soon after they came to know about Katara's arrest in Delhi. This raised suspicion, the police said.

Shardaben had approached the Delhi High Court seeking anticipatory bail on Tuesday but the Court directed her to seek bail from the trial court.

Katara was arrested when he was trying to take a woman and a boy to Toronto allegedly using the passports of his wife and son.

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