HC grants bail to retd Delhi cop held for providing firearm to man linked to pro-Khalistan movement
Mumbai Sep 29 PTI The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted bail to retired Delhi Police ACP Sunderlal Parashar who was arrested by the NIA for allegedly providing a firearm to a man linked to a group attempting to revive Sikh militancy for a separate Khalistan Parashar 62 a Delhi resident who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency NIA in 2019 had approached the high court after a special court in Mumbai rejected his bail plea A bench of Justices S S Shinde and N J Jamadar granted bail to him after noting that he had been accused of providing a country-made pistol and five live cartridges The central agency had applied the stringent section 7 read with section 25 1A of the Arms Act among other charges The high court aid that the above section prohibited possession of automatic sophisticated weapons that have a potential for mass destruction But in the present case Parashar was accused of having provided a country-made pistol it said A country-made pistol hardly satisfies the description of prohibited arms Thus the enhanced punishment prescribed under section 251A for contravention of section 7 of Arms Act may not be attracted in the facts of the case at hand the high court said It however added that Parashar could be charged under some other sections of the Arms Act and the Indian Penal Code Parashar had approached the high court after the special court in Mumbai rejected his bail plea In his plea filed through advocate Mubin Solkar Parashar had denied the charges against him He had said that he had been in touch with one of the alleged pro-Khalistan militants to gain information on some banned organisations while he was a police officer The HC bench quashed and set aside the special courts decision and granted Parashar bail till conclusion of trial in the case The appellant has suffered incarceration for a period of two years and five months Further incarceration of the appellant as an under-trial prisoner therefore appears wholly unjustifiable the HC said Indisputably the appellant had been a member of Delhi Police Force It cannot be said that the appellant has no roots in society In the context of the charge against the appellant it does not appear that the release of the appellant would either hamper the further investigation or put hindrance in the trial it said The high court however imposed several conditions on Parashars bail including a direction to him to appear before the NIA office in Mumbai once a month for the next six months PTI AYA ARU GK NP NP
Mumbai Sep 29 PTI The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted bail to retired Delhi Police ACP Sunderlal Parashar who was arrested by the NIA for allegedly providing a firearm to a man linked to a group attempting to revive Sikh militancy for a separate Khalistan Parashar 62 a Delhi resident who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency NIA in 2019 had approached the high court after a special court in Mumbai rejected his bail plea A bench of Justices S S Shinde and N J Jamadar granted bail to him after noting that he had been accused of providing a country-made pistol and five live cartridges The central agency had applied the stringent section 7 read with section 25 1A of the Arms Act among other charges The high court aid that the above section prohibited possession of automatic sophisticated weapons that have a potential for mass destruction But in the present case Parashar was accused of having provided a country-made pistol it said A country-made pistol hardly satisfies the description of prohibited arms Thus the enhanced punishment prescribed under section 251A for contravention of section 7 of Arms Act may not be attracted in the facts of the case at hand the high court said It however added that Parashar could be charged under some other sections of the Arms Act and the Indian Penal Code Parashar had approached the high court after the special court in Mumbai rejected his bail plea In his plea filed through advocate Mubin Solkar Parashar had denied the charges against him He had said that he had been in touch with one of the alleged pro-Khalistan militants to gain information on some banned organisations while he was a police officer The HC bench quashed and set aside the special courts decision and granted Parashar bail till conclusion of trial in the case The appellant has suffered incarceration for a period of two years and five months Further incarceration of the appellant as an under-trial prisoner therefore appears wholly unjustifiable the HC said Indisputably the appellant had been a member of Delhi Police Force It cannot be said that the appellant has no roots in society In the context of the charge against the appellant it does not appear that the release of the appellant would either hamper the further investigation or put hindrance in the trial it said The high court however imposed several conditions on Parashars bail including a direction to him to appear before the NIA office in Mumbai once a month for the next six months PTI AYA ARU GK NP NP
