Bapat moves plea for relaxation in anticipatory bail

Mumbai, May 29 (UNI) Former Mumbai Police commissioner Shreekant Bapat, who secured conditional anticipatory bail in connection with the 1999 MPSC scam, today moved a miscellaneous application urging the court to grant relaxation in the bail granted to him.

The application will come up for hearing on May 31 before a special anti-corruption bureau (ACB) court.

In the application, Mr Bapat said while granting the anticipatory bail on April 19 this year, the court directed him to present himself before the investigating officers of ACB for a period of two weeks and not to leave the jurisdiction of this court until further orders.

Bapat, in his application, said he had regularly attended the ACB office as per court directive and remained in the jurisdiction of the court.

He said in order to meet some urgent business meetings as well to the social work, he prayed the court to provide him some relaxation.

Bapat, who had been asked by the ACB of the Mumbai police to appear before them on March 27 to get his statement in the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) scam, instead moved the bail application before the court fearing arrest.

The ACB required his statement in connection with the appointment of three lohar brothers, sons of Pune-based Additional DGP P T Lohar, as deputy superintendents of police during 1997-98 through unfair means by allegedly forging marksheets while Mr Bapat was the exam controller with MPSC during that period.

They were dismissed in January this year after MPSC secretary Seema Dhamdhare lodged a supplementary complaint, making them accused.

In all, 29 people, including former MPSC chairman S D Karnik, former MPSC member and Hinduja college principal T Shivare have been arrested by the ACB in this case.

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