MUMBAI: A particular National Investigation Agency (NIA) court docket on Friday rejected a plea made by Elgar Parishad case accused, Sudha Bharadwaj (58), looking for expunging and withdrawal of sure “scurrilous” statements made by the NIA in response to her plea looking for unredacted statements of some witnesses.
An unredacted assertion refers to an announcement that has not been truncated or the place sure delicate and confidential parts usually are not obscured. Bharadwaj’s plea mentioned the NIA in its reply on December 21, 2020 had alleged that by means of the appliance, she was digging into the identities of the witnesses to trigger them hurt.
The NIA, nevertheless, mentioned it was properly throughout the provisions of legislation to specific apprehension that there is likely to be menace to witnesses. Bharadwaj had moved the plea in December. “The applicant is an undertrial prisoner with the presumption of innocence in her favour and there’s completely no proof that she would trigger hurt to witnesses. Quite the opposite, she has spent over 20 years in service of the folks,” Bharadwaj’s plea mentioned.
It added that the prosecution can’t be allowed to degree defamatory and scurrilous allegations towards her merely as a result of she is accused of against the law. “As officers of the court docket, the prosecution has a duty to behave with equity and can’t run roughshod over a weak and incarcerated individual by indulging in scandalous mudslinging,” the plea added.
An unredacted assertion refers to an announcement that has not been truncated or the place sure delicate and confidential parts usually are not obscured. Bharadwaj’s plea mentioned the NIA in its reply on December 21, 2020 had alleged that by means of the appliance, she was digging into the identities of the witnesses to trigger them hurt.
The NIA, nevertheless, mentioned it was properly throughout the provisions of legislation to specific apprehension that there is likely to be menace to witnesses. Bharadwaj had moved the plea in December. “The applicant is an undertrial prisoner with the presumption of innocence in her favour and there’s completely no proof that she would trigger hurt to witnesses. Quite the opposite, she has spent over 20 years in service of the folks,” Bharadwaj’s plea mentioned.
It added that the prosecution can’t be allowed to degree defamatory and scurrilous allegations towards her merely as a result of she is accused of against the law. “As officers of the court docket, the prosecution has a duty to behave with equity and can’t run roughshod over a weak and incarcerated individual by indulging in scandalous mudslinging,” the plea added.