This story is from May 23, 2015

Order on Gupta's bail plea likely on Tuesday

A special anti-corruption court kept its order pending till Tuesday on the bail application filed by former IAS officer and executive chairman of Metrolink Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA) Sanjay Gupta, in connection with the alleged Rs113-crore scam.
Order on Gupta's bail plea likely on Tuesday
AHMEDABAD: A special anti-corruption court kept its order pending till Tuesday on the bail application filed by former IAS officer and executive chairman of Metrolink Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA) Sanjay Gupta, in connection with the alleged Rs113-crore scam. In response to Gupta's bail plea, CID (crime) filed an affidavit and termed Gupta a habitual economic offender who is facing multiple cases in various courts across the country.

The probe agency has accused eight persons in this scam. Special judge N G Dave has also marked Tuesday to decide on various applications filed by Gupta including his request to the court to record his statement under Section 281 of CrPC. Gupta's counsel I H Syed requested the court to order investigation into the presence of one Vipul Trivedi with investigators during his custodial interrogation.
He said that the Investigating Officer claimed that Trivedi was permitted to remain present on the order of CID's chief. The court is to decide on this application on Tuesday.
Gupta was arrested earlier this month and remanded in four-day custodial interrogation on allegations of siphoning off crores of rupees by raising false supply orders and giving away tenders to a select few at rates higher than those prevailing in the market. The affidavit named 24 witnesses and listed documentary evidence to establish that the siphoning off took place during his chairmanship.
The witnesses include office bearers, clerks, accountants and office boys of Gupta's firms and they allegedly told investigators about the modus operandi and transactions. The witnesses also include contractors who claimed that they had paid bribes to Gupta to bag supply contracts.
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