Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 24: City Judge Jammu Manjeet Rai has rejected the bail application of UP based Saleem Qureshi who duped 64 lakhs from the fruit dealer. According to the police case the accused cheated and duped the complainant to the tune of more than Rs 64 lacs after taking away consignment of fruit laden trucks towards Meerut, Panipat, Karna & Akhola.
The accused as ascertained form 10 after two failed raids/attempts, has been arrested only on 19-11-2021 that too from Delhi after much efforts. The offence has been committed by the accused along with other absconding accused persons with prior planning with an eye on their personal wrongful gains totally disregarding the interest of the community and causing wrongful loss/damage to the complainant but also to the economy ignoring national interest, now cannot take refuge by projecting his victim card to plead innocence in order to gain empathy from this court.
The City Judge Jammu while rejecting the bail application observed that while granting bail in a non-bailable offence should take into account the various considerations, such as nature and seriousness of the evidence, the character of the evidence, circumstances which are peculiar to the accused, a reasonable possibility of the presence of the accused not being secured at trial, reasonable apprehension of the witnesses being tampered with, the larger interests of the public and the state, similarly other consideration which arise when the court is asked for bail in a non-bailable offence. |
