BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday upheld the judgment of the special court, which acquitted Dr Rehan Baig, brother of Minister Roshan Baig, in connection with a multi-crore stamp paper scam case registered by Upparpet police station.
Dr Rehan Baig was facing charges of obtaining a fake stamp vendor licence. The special court had acquitted Dr Rehan Baig on February 10, 2010. The CBI subsequently filed criminal appeal before the High Court against acquittal. The Division Bench of Justices Ravi Malimath and John Michael Cunha, however, dismissed the appeal.The same Bench also dismissed the criminal appeal filed by Abdul Karim Telgi, seeking directions to return the articles seized during probe.
IAS officer’s son gets anticipatory bail
The High Court granted anticipatory bail to Gagan Baderiya, son of senior IAS officer Gangaram Baderiya, in connection with two cases registered by the Special Investigation Team (SIT).
Allowing the bail plea, Justice Rathnakala imposed conditions that Gagan should appear before the investigating officer on the first and third Saturday of the month and not tamper with prosecution witnesses.
Gagan is second accused in one case and seventh accused in the other one. He is accused of allegedly facilitating his father Gangaram, who is also an accused, for illegal gratification. He had approached the High Court for relief after the Lokayukta Special Court rejected his anticipatory bail plea recently.
Lab allowed to operate temporarily for inspection
The High Court permitted Bureau Vertias Consumer Products Services India laboratory to operate its unit till August 2, 2017. The unit was closed in compliance of the NGT order in Bellandur lake case. KSPCB will meanwhile conduct a joint inspection to know whether the unit is complying with the norms or not.
Gururaj Joshi, advocate appearing for the KSPCB, earlier submitted that the joint inspection could not be held as the unit was closed. Hence the unit may be made operational on a trial basis so that the joint inspection could be done.
On hearing this, the Division Bench of Chief Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee and Justice P S Dinesh Kumar permitted the unit to carry out operation till August 2, 2017.