Court rejects plea for Kishan Kumar'sremand

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, APRIL 20. A Delhi court on Thursday dismissed an application by the Crime Branch of the Delhi police seeking remand of actor Kishan Kumar in the cricket match-fixing case.

In a related development, another city court granted permission to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to interrogate Kishan Kumar at Tihar Jail here for two days.

The Metropolitan Magistrate, Mr.K.S. Mohi, dismissed the Crime Branch application following a Delhi High Court order granting an Interim Anticipatory Bail (IAB) to Kishan Kumar. Mr. Mohi also directed the police not to arrest Kishan Kumar till April 25.

Mr. Mohi added that the police application had become ``infructuous'' in the wake of the High Court granting IAB to Kishan Kumar till April 25. He also allowed the police to move a fresh application, if they so desired, after April 25.

Meanwhile, the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Ms. Sangeeta Dhingra Sehgal, allowed Kishan Kumar's interrogation by two ED officials at Tihar Jail on April 21 and 22. She also directed the Crime Branch to hand over to the ED documents relating to the alleged hawala transactions by Kishan Kumar and Rajesh Kalra, another accused in match-fixing case.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime), Mr. P.K. Srivastava, who was summoned by the court, assured that the relevant documents would be handed over to the ED.

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