Kalra gets bail in O2 concentrators case
New Delhi: A Delhi court Saturday granted bail to businessman Navneet Kalra, accused of black marketing and selling oxygen concentrators at an exorbitant rate, and said the accused not joining the probe pending a decision on his anticipatory bail pleas.
A Delhi court has granted bail to businessman Navneet Kalra, who is accused of black marketing and selling oxygen concentrators at an exorbitant rate.
Chief metropolitan magistrate Arun Kumar Garg granted bail to Kalra subject to furnishing two surety bonds and a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh each.
The court in its order stated that this case is primarily based upon the documentary evidence and since “all relevant documents have already been seized by the IO from the possession/at the instance of accused, there is no substance in the plea of State that accused may temper with the evidence.”
Even otherwise, the said apprehension of the prosecution, regarding tempering of evidence by the accused, may be allayed by imposing appropriate condition upon the accused at the time of grant of bail that he shall not temper with the evidence,” the order read.
The court said that “similarly, there is no material supporting the bald averment of the prosecution that accused may influence the witnesses being influential.”
Opposing Klara’s bail Delhi Police claimed, he committed a white-collar crime and earned profits by selling medical devices at exorbitant prices to those on death beds.
“His intention was to cheat people and make profit. This is a white-collar crime. He sold oxygen concentrators to needy people lying on death beds,” additional public prosecutor Atul Shrivastava, representing the Delhi Police, told the court and sought rejection of Kalra’s bail plea.
The remarks by the Delhi Police come a day after Kalra, through senior advocate Vikas Pahwa, told the court that he had no criminal intent to cheat people and cannot be kept in pre-trial detention.
During the course of the proceedings on Saturday, the prosecutor showed Kalra’s oxygen concentrator brochures to the court, and said they were not premium or from Germany as claimed by the accused.