Arthur Road Jail to Conduct COVID 19 test on an accused in the PNB scam directs HC - Vijay Aggarwal Advocate Contended

Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been directed by the High Court to discard Chitalia's bail application inside fourteen days’ time.

Recently, the Bombay High Court (HC) coordinated the specialists at Mumbai's Arthur Road prison to complete the COVID-19 test on one of the blamed in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) case and present a report inside seven days.

The appealing party was looking for bearings for speedy removal of the bail utilization of the candidate recorded in Special CBI Case pending under the steady gaze of Special CBI Court and guiding the Arthur Road Jail to flexibly the total clinical report of the candidate to his family," Justice SK Shinde watched. “It showed up the candidate's bail application was heard on nineteenth December 2019. On 21st March 2020, however, it was recorded for articulating the request, it was not articulated. At the end of the day, it showed up, the bail utilization of the candidate is pending for passing the request since March 2020. Considering this, the educated Judge, CBI Court is coordinated to arrange off the Special Bail Application inside about fourteen days from today," he further included.

Advocate Vijay Aggarwal and Ashul Agarwal contended that according to news reports in excess of 180 detainees stopped in Arthur Road prison have been tried positive for COVID-19 and that Chitalia has likewise been tried positive for the infection can be demonstrated lethal for him as he is experiencing hypertension, diabetes, and different afflictions

The Bombay High Court had discarded the issue.

"On the off chance that the candidate has been medicinally analyzed by the prison specialists, they are mentioned to submit/give a duplicate of the clinical reports to the candidate in prison inside seven days from today," Justice Shinde said in his request and discarded the issue.

Chitalia, a nearby associate of PNB criminal denounced Mehul Choksi was captured in March 2018 by the government officials regarding the case. He has been in prison for more than two years now.

A month ago another blamed for the situation held up at Arthur Road prison office tried positive of the infection and is experiencing treatment.

While Choksi is suspected to be held up at the twin Caribbean island of Antigua and Barbuda, his nephew Nirav Modi is confronting a removal preliminary in London. The two of them are blamed for causing lost RS.13, 570 crores to the Punjab National Bank.