The City Civil and Sessions Court on Monday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of BJP’s vice-president of Maharashtra Kirit Somaiya in an alleged case of misappropriation of funds generated to save the aircraft carrier INS Vikrant from being scrapped.
The court refused to grant Mr. Somaiya any protection from arrest and held that there are pictures to show that he had collected money in the name of the ship; there is also a letter that states he was going to deposit the money with the Governor, which, however, he did not. The court will pronounce the order on the anticipatory bail by Neil Somaiya on April 12.
The Somaiyas had filed for pre-arrest bail on April 9 after the Trombay police registered a criminal case against them on the basis of a complaint by a retired Army officer Baban Bhosale. The FIR was registered under sections 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) of the Indian Penal Code.
