Petro Gate: Court grants bail to six accused

New Delhi, May 5: A Delhi court today granted bail to six accused, including four corporate executives and a journalist, arrested in connection with the Petroleum Ministry documents leak case.Additional Sessions Judge Gurdeep Singh Saini enlarged Shailesh Saxena of Reliance Industries Ltd, Vinay Kumar of Essar, Rishi Anand of Reliance ADAG, Cairns India’s K K Nayak, journalist Shantanu Saikia and Virender on bail on a personal bond of Rs 50,000 with one surety of the like amount.During the arguments on bail plea, the counsel appearing for the accused, told the court that they were seeking relief on ground of parity as one of the co-accused, Jubilant Energy’s Subhash Chandra, has already been granted bail. The defence counsel also said that the Crime Branch of Delhi Police has already filed charge sheet in the case and the provisions of Official Secrets Act have not been slapped.All the six accused also said that the allegations against them were quite similar to that of Chandra, who has already been granted bail by the court in the matter. Opposing their bail pleas, the police said that some confidential documents were recovered from the possession of the accused.