After spending two months in jail, Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty’s husband and businessman Raj Kundra was granted bail by the court on Monday on a surety of Rs 50,000. Raj Kundra came out of jail on 21st September and reached his home. Along with Raj Kundra, his partner and accused in the case Ryan Thorpe has also been granted bail. The court has granted bail to both of them after 6 days of filing a 1500-page chargesheet by the Crime Branch of Mumbai Police.
The crime branch team had argued in the court that it was not right to release Raj Kundra, as he can tamper with the evidence. At the same time, the police had expressed apprehension that he might leave the country. According to the Times of India news, as per the court order, the investigating officer had recorded all the statements of the witnesses under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which also said that the laptops and mobiles of Vian Industries were in the officer’s custody. So the chances of tampering with the evidence are less.
Along with this, the court also said that his other co-accused in this case have already been released on bail. Since the investigation of this case is still going on, the accused cannot be kept behind the bars of the jail till the end of the trial.
It has been said in the order of the CART that they had previously observed that the trial would take time and in such a situation it would not be appropriate to keep the accused in custody. At a time when he was ready to give bail of his presence and was also ready to abide by the conditions imposed by the court. In view of all these things, the court ordered the bail of Raj Kundra and Ryan Thorpe.
Let us tell you that on July 19, Raj Kundra was detained as the main conspirator in the porn video case. After spending 2 months in jail, he got bail after struggling a lot.
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