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Court dismisses anticipatory bail plea of Katara's wife
By IANS,
Apr 24, 2007 - 10:06:43 PM
New Delhi, April 24 - The Delhi High Court Tuesday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of Shardaben Katara, the wife of the Bharatiya Janata Party - MP Babubhai Katara who was arrested last week while trying to smuggle out a woman and a teenager boy to Toronto.
Justice Reva Khetarpal dismissed the plea of Shardaben and her two children -Bhabesh and Gayatri - who filed separate petitions seeking anticipatory bail.
While dismissing the petitions, the judge said they should approach the trial court before filing petitions in the high court.
The BJP MP from Dahod in Gujarat was held at the international airport here Wednesday along with a woman, Paramjit Kaur, and a boy, Amarjeet Singh, who were posing as his wife and son. They were travelling on the diplomatic passports of the MP's family members. Babubhai Katara is in police custody.
Shardaben in her petition said she had not travelled beyond Gujarat and did not know anything about the human trafficking.
In the plea she claimed that she had lost the diplomatic passport issued to her by the government in June 2006 and a first information report - had been lodged with police at Jhalore.
Katara's son and daughter also claimed in the petitions that they did not know anything about the human trafficking racket and should not be held guilty.
Both the son and the daughter, who are married, said in the petition that they had separate independent families and their bank accounts should not be frozen on suspicion.
Meanwhile, a Delhi Court extended by two days the police remand of an accused in the human trafficking case in which the BJP MP is facing the probe.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kamini Lau extended the police custody of Sunder Lal Yadav till April 26 saying that as per his disclosure statements revealing names of other accused, his custodial interrogation was necessary.
The court rejected his plea that his custody remand should not be extended in view of his poor health.
Meanwhile, the court also sent Kiran Dhar, an accomplice of Katara associate Rajendra Kumar Gampa, to two days' police custody. Yadav, Dhar and Gampa were arrested Saturday.
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