HC notice to CBI official

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, JUNE 15.

The Delhi High Court today issued notices to two officials, including a Joint Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on a petition by an accused seeking registration of a case of criminal intimidation and wrongful confinement against them.

A Division Bench comprising Mr. Justice S.K. Mahajan and Mr. Justice A.K. Sikri asked the two officials as well as the Delhi Government to file replies to the petition by June 20.

According to the petition filed through Mr. Surender Miglani, an advocate, Mr. Vijay Aggarwal, brother of Mr. Ashok Aggarwal, former Deputy Director of the Enforcement Directorate, Delhi Zone, was summoned by Inspector Vinod Kumar Pandey for June 7.

When the petitioner, facing prosecution in a disproportionate assets case along with his brother, Mr. Ashok Aggarwal, appeared before the investigating agency, no interrogation was conducted, the petition said.

Mr. Vijay Aggarwal was again summoned for June 11. Meanwhile, a Special Judge for CBI cases here issued notice on June 8 to the Joint Director, Mr. Neeraj Kumar, and Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mr. Ramneesh, on an application by Mr. Ashok Aggarwal accusing them of forging an Interpol fax message from Singapore to oppose his bail in the disproportionate assets case last year, the petition said.

When Mr. Vijay Aggarwal appeared at the CBI headquarters on June 11, the Inspector, at the behest of the Joint Director, humiliated and directed him to ask his brother to withdraw the application from the lower court, the petition alleged.

Mr. Miglani submitted that the summoning of his client was in violation of a lower court direction of last year asking the CBI not to summon the accused without its prior permission.

He submitted that the act of the two officials amounted to criminally intimidating and wrongfully confining his client.

Meanwhile, the High Court asked the CBI to adhere to the lower court's direction and not to summon Mr. Vijay Aggarwal without its prior permission.

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