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The Delhi High Court dismissed on Thursday the bail plea of a person arrested in an Election Commission (EC) bribery case allegedly involving AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran and others.
Earlier too, he was denied bail by the High Court and thrice by the trial court.
Justice Mukta Gupta rejected the bail application of Sukesh Chandrashekar, an alleged middleman in the case, who was arrested on April 16 last year.
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Chandrashekar was taken in custody on a charge of accepting money from Dhinakaran for bribing EC officials to ensure the allotment of the ‘two leaves’ symbol for the AIADMK’s Sasikala faction during the R K Nagar Assembly by-election in Tamil Nadu.
Opposing his bail application, the Delhi Police argued that he did not deserve bail as Chandrashekar allegedly showed little respect for law even during the period he had been in jail.
According to Additional Public Prosecutor Hirein Sharma, there are 24 FIRs lodged against him besides three more cases registered against Chandrashekar during the custody period. Chandrashekar, lodged in Tihar Jail, has also moved a separate application in the High Court alleging that he was subjected to torture though, as he claimed, there was an order that he should not be given such treatment.
Denying his charge, the jail authorities said it was an “afterthought of the shrewd mind of the accused”.
His earlier bail plea was dismissed by the High Court on June 15 last year as the police had seized from him a fake ID card showing that he was a Rajya Sabha member.
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