Supreme Court hearing plea by Shivinder Mohan Singh, former Fortis Healthcare promoter accused in a money laundering case, challenging Delhi High Court's order of cancelling bail granted to him by trial Court.
ASG Natraj for Delhi Police: Its in v advanced stage, there’s assurance by end of this month they’ll be able to complete investigation
Sr Adv Siddharth Luthra for Singh: So far as i am concerned, Chargesheet was filed they closed it. On 9 feb 2021 they stated investigation is over qua me and i got bail from trial court. My bail was cancelled
Bench: We said we’ll set aside hc order and Let HC examine order & do something. Mr Mehta didn’t agree. We kept matter pending. Again you want time
CJI: one thing you’ve to remember You shouldn’t take sides. It has to be fair investigation. In criminal offences, investigating agencies have to be neutral. That’s what we want
Bench: We kept the matter for hearing of the matter. We’re not going to give that much time to complete. 15th December we’re listing
Sr Adv R Basant for Religare: Another FIR has been registered.
CJI: let them register 100 FIRs
Sr Adv Basant: 200 crores have been paid to silence witness. It’ll be dangerous to release this petitioner.
CJI: You want to file proceedings to settle scores. We don’t allow that. If they want to book FIR let them book we have nothing to do with that
CJI: We’re not going to look into those things. Its a case for bail, we’ll decide whether to grant bail or not. Don’t enlarge scope of this matter. This is simple case for bail
J Kohli: when your matter comes you have your own rights & remedies.
