The Hindu : Court refuses to hear Sharma's bail plea again

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Wednesday, May 21, 2003

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Court refuses to hear Sharma's bail plea again

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI MAY 20. Another Delhi High Court judge today refused to hear bail applications by the sacked Delhi Development Authority's Vice- Chairman, Subhash Sharma, and two other former officials of the Authority in the DDA land scandal case.

Last week, Justice R.C. Chopra had returned their bail applications to the Registry with a request to the Chief Justice, Justice B.C. Patel, to assign these to some other judge to hear.

However, Mr. Justice Chopra, who had granted interim bail to the former judge of the High Court, Shameet Mukherjee, had not given any reason for refusing to hear their bail applications.

The bail applications of Sharma, Anand Mohan Sharan and Jagdish Chander are now pending in the High Court for about a fortnight.

They moved the High Court immediately after Mr. Justice Chopra granted bail to Mukherjee allowing the disgraced judge's plea that his wife was seriously ill and needed his personal care.

Today the bail applications were listed for hearing in the court of Justice B.N. Chaturvedi. When their turn came, Mr. Justice Chaturvedi said that he would not take up the petitions for consideration. However, he did not assign any reason.

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