The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has opposed the default bail request of former Mumbai police officer Sachin Waje in a corruption case.
Sacked Mumbai Police officer Sachin Vaze (Photo: File)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has opposed the default bail plea of former Mumbai police officer Sachin Waje in the corruption case against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.
Waze had filed an application demanding that he be made a government witness. The CBI had allowed Wez to become a government witness on the condition that he had made full disclosures in the trial against Deshmukh. After the CBI’s approval, the CBI court also allowed Vaze to be a government witness.
On June 2, the CBI had filed a chargesheet against Deshmukh and his two associates Sanjeev Palande and Kundan Shinde. However, due to the court order, Vaze, who was made a government witness, was not chargesheeted as he had become a witness in the case.
Vaze, through his lawyer Raunak Naik, submitted that since the chargesheet is not against him, he should be granted bail. However, the CBI, in its two-page reply, reiterated that Vaez was granted pardon under 306 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) on June 1.
CBI’s reply further stated that “this fact, by any stretch of the imagination, has nothing to do with Section 167 of CrPC for grant of default bail. On the contrary, Section 306(4)(b) of Cr.P.C. It is clearly stated that every person who accepts clemency under section 306(1) of CrPC shall be kept in custody till the end of the trial unless he is already out on bail. It is a matter of record that the accused is in judicial custody and therefore the argument deserves to be dismissed.”