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Katara's judicial custody extended

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday extended the judicial remand of BJP MP Babubhai Katara and four others accused in the human trafficking case to May 18. The bail plea of one of the accused, Paramjeet Kaur, would come up for hearing on May 9.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kamini Lau asked the accused to cooperate in the investigation. Admitting the plea of Mr. Katara's counsel that the police registered two FIRs in connection with the same offence, the court asked the police to club themwhile filing the challan and the charge sheet.

Moving Paramjeet's bail plea, her counsel claimed she had been duped. The alleged kingpin, Kehar Singh's brother-in-law Joginder Singh, came to her house and took her original passport, promising that she would travel to the United States on genuine documents.

However, the court asked whether the other members of Paramjeet's family, including her husband, her father-in-law and mother-in-law, went abroad using invalid documents. Counsel said they were staying in the U.S. and Canada for the last many years and were valid taxpayers there.

The ACMM, however, observed thatbeing in the U.S. and Canada as valid tax payers did not mean they went out of the country on valid documents. The court also asked the police to verify the facts.

Besides Mr. Katara and Paramjeet, the other three accused who were produced in the court were Sunder Lal Yadav, Rajender Kumar Gampa and Kiran Dhar.

Sunderlal had told the court that he introduced two travel agents, Mahesh Gupta and Rasheed, to three MPs — K. Chandrashekhar Rao of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, Mohammad Tahir Khan of the Bahujan Samaj Party and Ramswaroop Koli of the BJP.

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