Gurgaon court denies anticipatory bail to news anchor Chitra Tripathi

Eight media professionals had been booked for allegedly telecasting and aboriginal uploading connected the net a video of a 10-year-old miss successful an “obscene and vulgar manner” and linking it to a intersexual battle lawsuit against self-styled godman Asaram Bapu. The lawsuit was registered nether sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 469 (forgery for intent of harming reputation) and 471 (using arsenic genuine a forged document) of the Indian Penal Code; sections 67B (publishing oregon transmitting of worldly depicting children successful sexually explicit act, etc. successful physics form) and 66(2) (computer related offences) of the Information Technology Act; and conception 23 of the POCSO Act nether which the disclosure of the individuality of the kid is simply a punishable offence.

Tripathi and Suhail had moved applications seeking exemption from idiosyncratic quality successful court. While Tripathi said she was travelling to Nashik successful Maharashtra to screen the Assembly elections and interrogation NCP main Ajit Pawar, Suhail submitted that helium had to be a governmental lawsuit successful Kanpur successful Uttar Pradesh connected relationship of the bypolls.

While submitting her bail application, Tripathi reiterated the reasons for her absence.

The bail was dismissed connected November 25 arsenic the tribunal of Additional District and Sessions Judge Ashwani Kumar stated that the grounds for bail were the aforesaid arsenic those for non-appearance. The tribunal said that the exertion was declined aft “feeling dissatisfied with the reasons assigned successful the said application…and since the contiguous exertion is based upon the aforesaid grounds hence, it is required to beryllium declined arsenic this tribunal had recovered those reasons to beryllium unjustified,” it said.

Tripathi had submitted her formation tickets and photographs of the interrogation with Maharashtra caretaker main curate Eknath Shinde and Pawar to substantiate her application. The tribunal said that keeping successful presumption the presumption and engaged docket of these politicians, the interrogation would person been fixed earlier and if the accused had immoderate respect for the process of the court, she could person gotten her beingness exempted by moving the exemption exertion personally connected immoderate different day anterior to the day fixed.

In its warrant-issuing order, the tribunal had directed the presumption location serviceman acrophobic to execute the warrant and to look successful idiosyncratic if the warrants remained unexecuted.

The counsel for the complainant maintained that connected the past 2 dates, the beingness of accused Tripathi was exempted connected wellness grounds, but now, nary justifiable crushed is made retired to exempt the beingness of the accused.

“…this Court does not find immoderate justification for exempting her beingness arsenic it appears that she has been taking the process of the tribunal rather lightly. The contiguous lawsuit pertains to the twelvemonth 2015 and if proceedings are not conducted expeditiously, it volition not beryllium practically feasible to dispose of the lawsuit astatine the earliest which has already go 9 years old. Hence, the exertion seeking exemption connected behalf of accused Chitra Tripathi is declined,” the tribunal said, cancelling the bail and forfeiting the bail bonds and surety bonds of some the accused.